If your still using Internet Explorer as your main web browser, I’m sorry. If you don’t know of other browsers that are available. Let me point out a couple. My favorite is Chrome, and my second favorite is FireFox. If you need a reason to change, let me introduce you to “Operation Aurora”.
I believe Microsoft said it best about project Aurora. And I quote:
So what does this mean? Well if you go to the right web page… just go to it. Your computer can be compromised by an “Hacker”. When Is say hacker, I mean the Chinese Government. For the record, no one in the Chinese Government has come out to say they did it, but… well common sense says different. We’ll get to that later. You know whats funny, is I don’t fault nor do I blame them. I blame Microsoft. I will get to this later.
Lets look at the companies that where effected to begin with:
So why do I blame Microsoft and not the Chinese Government? Well its simple… as usual Microsoft has know about this flaw for a while. My simple research shows they have known about it since September of 2009. That is four months to long for what should have been considered a critical flaw. How many of you store not just your personal important but your businesses important data on computers running windows. Now how many of them are being used with Internet Explorer as the default browser? Now how does that make you feel? This should have been put to the top of the priority queue for fixing. It should not have waited till it was being exploited to be fixed.
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Operation Aurora – Chinese Government – More reasons to ditch Internet Explorer
I believe Microsoft said it best about project Aurora. And I quote:
So what does this mean? Well if you go to the right web page… just go to it. Your computer can be compromised by an “Hacker”. When Is say hacker, I mean the Chinese Government. For the record, no one in the Chinese Government has come out to say they did it, but… well common sense says different. We’ll get to that later. You know whats funny, is I don’t fault nor do I blame them. I blame Microsoft. I will get to this later.
Lets look at the companies that where effected to begin with:
unconfirmed but probably so:
So why do I blame Microsoft and not the Chinese Government? Well its simple… as usual Microsoft has know about this flaw for a while. My simple research shows they have known about it since September of 2009. That is four months to long for what should have been considered a critical flaw. How many of you store not just your personal important but your businesses important data on computers running windows. Now how many of them are being used with Internet Explorer as the default browser? Now how does that make you feel? This should have been put to the top of the priority queue for fixing. It should not have waited till it was being exploited to be fixed.
To be continued…..
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