New Internet Explorer Vulnerability Sparks Warnings, Spotlights End User Security Risks

If you use IE 6-9 on either XP, Vista, or Windows 7, your computer may be at risk, thanks to a zero-day vulnerability discovered earlier this week.

According to Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, the exploit allows an attacker to essentially compromise and run code on your computer under the same context of the user of the computer itself. This means that an attacker can access a victims files or even completely backdoor the system for complete access.

"This vulnerability is related to the Java exploit from a few weeks ago because the original researcher whom discovered this vulnerability actually found it on one of the attacker servers used in the Java zero-day attacks," Maiffret said in an email. "It looks like the same attacker...

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