A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft’s latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer’s computer.
\nMicrosoft on Friday released a fix that’s designed to protect computers from one of three flaws that, together, could be used to digitally slip past a PC’s security through the browser. This weekend, however, a security researcher identified another flaw that could serve the same purpose and that isn’t fixed by Microsoft’s patc<\/p>\n
“They chose to address only one part of the problem,” said Jelmer Kuperus, a computer science student in the Netherlands who posted the code for the work-around. “They should have seen this one coming.”<\/p>\n
This marks the third time in a month that Microsoft has had to play catch-up to researchers’ public disclosures about insecurities in Internet Explorer. In early June, Kuperus found a Web site that used two previously unknown vulnerabilities, plus the recently patched one, to install adware on victims’ computers. Additionally, security researchers discovered last week that a milder vulnerability, which Microsoft had fixed in early versions of the browser, reappeared in later versions.<\/p>\n
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