{"id":1794,"date":"2009-01-07T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2012-09-22T04:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T04:56:24","slug":"german-authorities-advise-against-use-of-microsofts-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"German authorities advise against use of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>German’s web safety authority has warned web users not to use the Internet Explorer browser until a newly discovered and serious security defect has been fixed.<\/p>\n

The Federal Information Technology Safety Office BSI said computers could be infected with a virus simply by visiting a tainted website. The threat was described as zero-day virus, meaning one that cannot yet be detected by anti-virus software.<\/p>\n

The late Monday warning was rare in advising users to avoid the browser completely and to use alternative browsers. The Berlin-based BSI said it was in touch with Microsoft, the software company, and would issue an all-clear when the vulnerability had been fixed.<\/p>\n

The computers affected are those running Internet Explorer 8 and 9 with the Windows 7 operating system and versions 7 or 8 with Windows XP. BSI said the vulnerability had not been previously published, but had already been exploited.<\/p>\n

Microsoft responded that its newest Internet Explorer version, 10, was not affected and said in a blog it was working to fix the problem. It said there had been “only a small number of targeted attacks” as a result of the vulnerability. – DPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German’s web safety authority has warned web users not to use the Internet Explorer browser until a newly discovered and serious security defect has been fixed. The Federal Information Technology Safety Office BSI said computers could be infected with a virus simply by visiting a tainted website. The threat was described as zero-day virus, meaning … Continue reading “German authorities advise against use of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86],"tags":[1262,51,1258,1257,1260,1261,1259],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-browser","tag-germany","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsot","tag-vulnerability","tag-web-safety-authority","tag-zero-day-virus"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}