{"id":101574,"date":"2014-05-01T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=101574"},"modified":"2014-05-01T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:10:57","slug":"internet-explorer-security-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/101574-internet-explorer-security-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer security update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is releasing a security update for Internet Explorer that closes a gap that allowed attackers to take complete control of a computer. It also issued the update to Windows XP users, despite dropping support for the older operating system last month.<\/p>\n<p>The update will go live at 10 a.m. Pacific time Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Hall, general manager of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, said in a statement that the company decided to fix the problem quickly for all customers, saying it takes the security of its products &#8220;incredibly seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft reported the problem Saturday, saying it was aware of &#8220;limited, targeted attacks&#8221; and that the vulnerability affected Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11<\/p>\n<p>The company said users with automatic updates enabled don&#8217;t need to take any action.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #263034;\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Internet Explorer security flaw\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/101358-internet-explorer-security-flaw.html\"><strong>Internet Explorer security flaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/100358-internet-users-cant-thwart-heartbleed-bug.html\">Internet users can\u2019t thwart \u2018Heartbleed\u2019 bug<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/100324-critical-security-bug-gets-sa-sites-hosts-scrambling.html\">Critical security bug gets SA sites, hosts scrambling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is releasing a security update for Internet Explorer that closes a gap that allowed attackers to take complete control of a computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":77288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,15537,983,123],"class_list":["post-101574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-ie","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101576,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101574\/revisions\/101576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}