Microsoft Issues Fix for Zero-Day IE Flaw
Summary: Microsoft issued an emergency out-of-band update, MS13-008, fixing a single critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 through 8 that attackers had been exploiting in targeted attacks. The patch arrived a little more than two weeks after security firms began seeing evidence of the attacks, and Microsoft said it had seen only a limited number of attacks but acknowledged more customers could be affected.
What's compelling: The flaw was already being used in targeted attacks for more than two weeks before a fix existed, and Microsoft's own Fix It stopgap had to be uninstalled after applying the update - a reminder that interim workarounds carry their own cleanup burden.
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