Vulnerability in IE7 endangers Credit Card Numbers, Passwords and SSS
February 27, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
A recent flow was found in IE7 on Windows Vista where hackers could fraudulently take credit card numbers, passwords, and social security numbers.
French Security Incident Response Team were the ones who reported the problem to Microsoft.
Microsoft has responded that to prevent this from happening users should open a new IE page whenever an untrusted website is being visited.
That is just a quick and temporary solutions as Microsoft is going to release a patch soon.
Source here.
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