Palo Alto Networks Researchers Discover Two Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Summary: Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered two critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities affecting IE versions 9, 10, and 11, both documented in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-084 from July 2016. The vulnerabilities were disclosed to Microsoft through the Microsoft Active Protections Program, and the company says its researchers have found more than 80 critical Microsoft vulnerabilities over the past 20 months.
Bottom line: Two critical flaws sat in IE 9, 10, and 11 - browsers still widely deployed across enterprise and government networks - and the disclosure path ran through a vendor program rather than a public drop, so patching speed was the only thing standing between attackers and those networks.
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