As Of Today The DHS Warns Internet Users To Avoid Explorer Browsers Due To Threat

**Safetyhit** · 04-28-14, 10:55

Just a heads up to all, sounds like a legit issue.

Reuters
8:38 a.m. CDT, April 28, 2014

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,4797833.story

**montanadave** · 04-28-14, 11:37

I'm eagerly awaiting the introduction of an "DHS Internet Threat Warning" scale to inform the great unwashed when it's safe to venture into cyperspace.

All kidding aside, this is another one of those issues that is going to seriously bit us in the ass one day. The majority of the public, myself included, blithely go about our days assuming that "they" (those uber-smart tech geeks that actually understand how the intergoogle works) are diligently toiling away in their cube-farms insuring that our financial records, electrical grids, air-traffic control systems, you name it, are all safeguarded against the bad guys. I suspect if the truth of how vulnerable many of these systems are were public knowledge folks would freak the **** out.

I'm more concerned that I'm going to wake up some day and see every account I have deleted than I am a mushroom cloud on the horizon.

**ClearedHot** · 04-28-14, 11:50

People still use IE??

**GotAmmo** · 04-28-14, 11:51

Originally Posted by ClearedHot

People still use IE??

my thought exactly

**montanadave** · 04-28-14, 11:55

Originally Posted by ClearedHot

People still use IE??

My Mom is still on AOL.

**Safetyhit** · 04-28-14, 11:56

Originally Posted by GotAmmo

my thought exactly

Apparently most still use it.

"Versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer dominate desktop browsing, accounting for 55 percent of the PC browser market, according to tech research firm NetMarketShare. Google Inc's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox account for the majority of the rest of the traffic."

**sammage** · 04-28-14, 11:57

Originally Posted by GotAmmo

my thought exactly

The day we strayed from NetScape is when we went wrong.

**Kain** · 04-28-14, 11:57

I think most tech guy knew this. About five years ago. Thought it was common knowledge that Internet Explore was not the most secure browser out there.