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German government IE warning leads to spike in Firefox downloads
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| Following a warning last Friday from the German
| Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt
| fÃr Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI)
| concerning the security hole in Internet Explorer
| (IE), Mozilla has said that it has recorded a "huge
| increase" in the number of Firefox downloads in
| Germany. According to a post by Mozilla's Ken Kovash
| on the Mozilla Blog of Metrics, more than 300,000
| downloads of the open source browser took place during
| the recent Friday to Monday period. Similarly, Opera also
| reportedly saw downloads of its browser in Germany more than double.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/German-government-IE-warning-leads-to-spike-in-Firefox-downloads-908864.html
MS to issue emergency patch for potent IE vuln
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| Microsoft will release an emergency upda
| te
| that patches the Internet Explorer
| vulnerability used to breach the security
| defenses of Google and other large companies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/19/microsoft_emergency_patch/
Microsoft to patch hole in Internet Explorer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8469632.stm
Who cares if IE is patched soon?
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| Microsoft is now promising us that they'll
| have a patch for the latest IE security hole
| ... real soon now. So what? This problem,
| while it's been exploited the most in IE 6, it
| exists in all modern versions of IE and it can
| be exploited in every version of Windows from
| Windows 2000 to Windows 7. And, I'm supposed
| to trust that Microsoft will 'patch' it right
| this time and that it won't blow up on me
| again? I don't think so.
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http://www.itworld.com/security/93253/who-cares-if-ie-patched-soon
Related:
Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
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| The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the
| end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
|
| "I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better",
| says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147701/malware_spam_and_other_net_pests_rev_up.html
New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm
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| Damballa predicts that even now that Kraken has been outed, it will continue
| growing at least in the near-term -- up to at least 600,000 new bots by
| mid-April. Its bots are prolific, too: The firm has seen single Kraken bots
| sending out up to 500,000 pieces of spam in a day.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1
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