Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Browser Exploit that does NOT affect IE!!

Oh no! It seem there is a 'proof of concept' at large that allows a malicious attacker to spoof the website address shown in the URL bar. This bug can be exploited on Firefox, Mozilla, Safari and Opera, but NOT on Microsoft's own Internet Explorer!!

But, before MS starts rejoycing too much, it should be pointed out that the only reason that IE is not affected, is that 'International Domain Name' [IDN] is not actually supported on IE!!

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