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Scott Schnoll's Internet Explorer Security
Information on Internet and web browser security as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer security features and flaws.
www.nwnetworks.com
Internet Explorer Security Pro
Internet Explorer Security is a utility that customizes aspects of the Internet Explorer Web browser.
www.mybestsoft.com
CERT Advisory: Buffer Overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Provides an overview and solutions to this vulnerability which, theoretically, affects all applications utilizing the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine.
www.cert.org
CIAC: Microsoft Internet Explorer-Content Type Falsification (Three Vulnerabilities)
Detailed explanation and workaround of these vulnerabilities affecting I.E 5.5 and 6.
www.ciac.org
Wired News: IE Bug Can Lead to Strange Search
Describes a security hole which can be exploited to change users' search sites or to serve up offensive ads.
www.wired.com
Wired News: IE Hole-Finder in Odd Position
A hacker who discovered a potentially devastating security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer says he has found himself in the undesired position of providing technical support to people who cannot install the patch that Microsoft released to fix the flaw.
www.wired.com
Wired News: IE Hole Surrenders Your Computer
An attacker can gain control of another user's machine using an HTML-formatted e-mail with an attachment that contains a small remote-control program. The e-mail can be sent directly to the victim, or can be placed on a website.
www.wired.com
The Register: MS Security Patch Fails on Local Files
The MS patch intended to fix a data binding flaw in IE, which enables a script to call executables on your Windows machine using the object tag, does not protect against malicious files launched from a local directory.
www.theregister.co.uk
The Register: Cumulative IE Patch for Maicious Cookies
A fairly serious flaw in Internet Explorer which would enable a malicious Web page or e-mail to drop a cookie containing an HTML script on a victim's machine and run it in the 'Local Computer' zone rather than the Internet zone to avoid restrictions has just been patched.
www.theregister.co.uk
The Register: IE, Outlook Run Malicious Commands Without Scripting
An attacker can run arbitrary commands on Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML, an Israeli security researcher has demonstrated. The exploit will work with IE, Outlook and Outlook Express even if active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the browser security settings.
www.theregister.co.uk
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x 5.x - Frame Loop Vulnerability
Advisory by USSR: "It is possible to create a malicious webpage that when visited by an IE user all of their system resources are devoured and depending on the system its possible that the machine can even crash and reboot itself."
www.ussrback.com
CNET: Buffer-overflow Bug in IE
"Microsoft is urging users of its Internet Explorer browser to download a patch for a newly discovered buffer-overflow security bug. The bug takes advantage of the way some versions of the IE browser handle long strings of JScript code."
news.com.com
GreyMagic Security: Appendix to "IE allows universal Cross Site Scripting"
Explains how the "ANALYZE.DLG" resource can be manipulated to allow the execution of arbitrary code in the My Computer" zone.
sec.greymagic.com
Retrieving Information on Local Files in IE
Explains how the IMG element's dynsrc attribute can be exploited to test the existence of, find the size of, find the date last updated/modified of, and the creation date of, an arbitrary local file. By GreyMagic Security.
sec.greymagic.com
Privacy Secrets of MicroSoft's Internet Explorer
Security and internet privacy issues of Global Histories, Cookies, and Cache while browsing with Mac Explorer 5.0
phaster.com