CSS is a security flaw in IE, claim

Author: Wil Harris
Published: 6th December 2005
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CSS is a security flaw in IE, claim

FireFox wants 10% by the end of this year - will flaws like this drive IE users to the browser?

MrWillyWonka writes:

Matan Gilion, an Israeli computer security expert, has written an article on security risks of using Google desktop with Microsoft Internet Explorer, claiming there is a security hole with the way IE uses CSS.

According to Gilion, this can only be fixed with a patch from Microsoft, which is yet to be forthcoming.

"Microsoft said it is not aware of malicious code that seeks to exploit the CSS flaw," Gilion says.

As Microsoft is a well known rival of Google, are they actually doing their best, if anything, to solve the compatibility problem?

As a lot of people with experience of computers use Firefox, so this isn't an issue for them, but for novice computer users who most likely use IE as their default browser, this could be a big problem going forward.

You can read the full article here over on Gilion's website here.

There's also more on this from TechNewsWorld. Do you use Google toolbar? More to the point, do you still use IE? Tell us over in the forum.


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CSS is a security flaw in IE, claim

Using the Google toolbar with Internet Explorer could leave open a big hole for malicious attacks, a security expert has claimed.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2005/12/06/css_security_flaw/1


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