No, I'm sorry, at the risk of sounding like every snarky, snide hack on the Internet right now: The biggest problem here is that YOU HAVE BEEN USING INTERNET EXPLORER. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO WORK A COMPUTER? I AM SO INDIGNANT THAT
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising Americans not to use the Internet Explorer Web browser until a fix is found for a serious security flaw that came to light over the weekend. The bug was announced on Saturday by
We hope that you heeded our advice to finally ditch Windows XP in favor of a more modern operating system, because there's a new security exploit that'll leave stubborn XP users in the cold. In a security alert released on
Hackers are already at work exploiting a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that has left more than half of the world's Web browsers vulnerable to attack, including those on many federal government computers. Microsoft said it was
But this bug is more omnipresent than it seems. Lots of machines use Windows — bank ATMs, point of sale systems, restaurant seating tools — and Internet Explorer is their default browser. If hackers manage to send them to a bad website, that machine