| Internet Explorer 7: Still Secure? |
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| Friday, 12 January 2007 | ||||
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The firm, held by the online certificate company Verisign, announced a competition that would pay security researchers upwards to $12,000usd for a working exploit that can leverage Microsoft's IE7 web browser to run arbitrary code on a users machine. Reading between the lines of the contest suggest that the new browser platform is currently... how do we say this... SECURE!The company is also offering a bounty for Microsoft's new flagship product, Vista, in it's final shipping state [ eg: not a Release Candidate ]. Pay per exploits by companies such as iDefense and 3com's Tipping Point, once controversial, are now becoming a generally accepted way to encourage researchers to find flaws and get paid for their work. In the past, many researchers suffered from not having a way to showcase, or be recognized for their findings. What iDefense and Tipping point offer can often sway these people to not be tempted to release and sell those codes to would be Internet thieves, who pay for and use such flaws and code to build their armies of bots and worms. Zone-h supports the security research community, and wishes those seeking this prize the best of luck!
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