You may have read recently how Google's China division was attacked by Chinese nationalists to locate political dissidents, spurring Google to refuse to keep censoring their search results in China.
This is an interesting topic in its self, but I want to talk about the security exploit used, the 0-day exploit, "Aurora," used against Microsoft Internet Explorer that caused this whole fiasco.
Yet again IE screws up big time. Why Google employees were using IE is beyond me, but it highlights just another disaster caused by the buggy IE.
This is far from the first time that IE has caused a massive security breach. Toshiba, IBM, and AIG have all been high profile victims of IEs miserable security.
I know many people that use IE for the sole reason of "its the default, so it must be good" and many businesses that will not upgrade to a better browser due to the costs of installing an alternative browser on workstations. I may propose, however I propose an alternative view. How much does a massive security breach cost, versus the cost of upgrading to a better browser?
I know security consultants that manage multi-million dollar projects to secure massive networks, and yet still let the Windows 2000 work stations run Internet Explorer 6, which will yield a security vulnerability if you look at it angrily enough.
Everyone, grow up and get a better browser.
This is an interesting topic in its self, but I want to talk about the security exploit used, the 0-day exploit, "Aurora," used against Microsoft Internet Explorer that caused this whole fiasco.
Yet again IE screws up big time. Why Google employees were using IE is beyond me, but it highlights just another disaster caused by the buggy IE.
This is far from the first time that IE has caused a massive security breach. Toshiba, IBM, and AIG have all been high profile victims of IEs miserable security.
I know many people that use IE for the sole reason of "its the default, so it must be good" and many businesses that will not upgrade to a better browser due to the costs of installing an alternative browser on workstations. I may propose, however I propose an alternative view. How much does a massive security breach cost, versus the cost of upgrading to a better browser?
I know security consultants that manage multi-million dollar projects to secure massive networks, and yet still let the Windows 2000 work stations run Internet Explorer 6, which will yield a security vulnerability if you look at it angrily enough.
Everyone, grow up and get a better browser.