{"id":257,"date":"2005-01-12T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2005-01-12T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T00:00:32","slug":"new-ie-exploit-make-sure-your-windows-patches-are-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/new-ie-exploit-make-sure-your-windows-patches-are-current\/","title":{"rendered":"New(?) IE Exploit &#8211; Make Sure Your Windows Patches Are Current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, discovered in October of 2004 has been upgraded to &#8216;extremely critical&#8217;, since it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/01\/10\/ie_sp2_exploit\/\">it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,119217,00.asp\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20050110-4513.html\">And here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has released patches &#8211; if you&#8217;re not set up to automatically download critical updates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/pharmacy\/it\/Tips\/winupdat1.htm\">here&#8217;s how to make sure you&#8217;re updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;re not running IE, you&#8217;re all set &#8211; this one can&#8217;t touch you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, discovered in October of 2004 has been upgraded to &#8216;extremely critical&#8217;, since it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website. it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}