MICROSOFT EXPLORER
By Andy Patrizio
How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years?
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By now you have likely heard of the 19-year-old Windows bug found by IBM late last week. If not, here’s the tl;dr version of it: IBM found a vulnerability in VBScript, Microsoft’s alternative to JavaScript which was introduced in Internet Explorer 3.0 and ran on Windows 95. Even today, the bug is impervious to the sandboxing features in Internet Explorer 11
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“New” isn’t completely “new”?
Argh!
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