IE attack Code posted for new IE attack Code posted for new IE attack

Another IE attack? Surely you jest? Eh, not this time I am afraid. It’s another segment of browser wars!

Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they’ve released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft Corp.’s popular browser.

The vulnerability is similar to a bug that Microsoft patched last month in a multimedia component of Internet Explorer, according to Vincent Hwang, a group product manager with Symantec’s Security Response team.
Though a sample exploit of the vulnerability was posted Wednesday by hackers on the xsec.org Web site, Symantec has yet to see the code used in any attacks, according to Hwang.
To take advantage of the exploit code, attackers would first need to trick users into viewing a maliciously encoded Web page, but they could then run unauthorized code on a victim’s computer…. Source: InfoWorld