Microsoft IE Flaw Exploited by Hackers to Steal Info From Google

Microsoft is apologetic about the incident and is working to help affected companies

While making a browser can pave the way to lucrative advertising revenue contracts, it can also be a headache in terms of providing the user with security, as users will typically interact with a broad variety of websites, some of which may be compromised or insecure. When you’re the top player in the browser market, like Microsoft, this problem becomes especially serious.

Microsoft typically has a pretty good security track record, but under the enormous pressure of safeguarding millions of business users, cracks in its armor can appear. Thus was the case with a new flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which the company posted an advisory (97352) about yesterday.

The advisory describes, “The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.”

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