InformationWeek SMB: Microsoft Releases Critical Internet Explorer Patch
Microsoft on Thursday released an out-of-band patch, MS10-002, to address eight vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, a move prompted by the revelation last week that a series of cyber attacks from China on Google and some 33 other companies relied on a flaw in Microsoft’s browser.
The eight vulnerabilities are rated “critical” in most cases and have an Exploitability Index rating of 1, meaning that exploit code is likely. In fact, proof-of-concept exploit code has already been reported and malicious exploit code is circulating online.