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German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE

January 16th, 2010 01:57 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

An anonymous reader writes “After McAfee’s disclosure of an IE 0-day vulnerability this week that had been used in Operation Aurora, the hack and stealing of data from Google, Adobe and about 3 dozen other major companies, the German government has advised the public to switch to alternative browsers (untranslated statement). Given that the exploit has now been made public and the patch from Microsoft is still nowhere to be seen, how long will it be before other governments follow suit?”

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