{"id":116634,"date":"2015-01-12T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116634"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T10:55:40","slug":"beware-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/116634-beware-internet-explorer.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by\u00a0security software provider\u00a0ESET, Internet Explorer is the most frequently targeted component of Windows when it comes to exploit attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The number of attacks on Internet Explorer grew in 2014 compared to the year before, with Microsoft having to address twice as many security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately for its users, a great number of these vulnerabilities were patched during the same year,&#8221; the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable examples of the aforementioned vulnerabilities were the Unicorn bug and the\u00a0BlackEnergy trojan, with the latter exploiting a bug in\u00a0Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116638\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Windows-exploitations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116638\" class=\"wp-image-116638\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Windows-exploitations.png\" alt=\"Windows exploitation 2014\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows exploitation 2014 (welivesecurity.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet Explorer\u00a0news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/101574-internet-explorer-security-update.html\">Internet Explorer security update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/101358-internet-explorer-security-flaw.html\">Internet Explorer security flaw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/96837-internet-explorer-flaw-leads-online-attacks.html\">Internet Explorer flaw leads online attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recently published report, Internet Explorer users are most vulnerable to exploit attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,983,123,807],"class_list":["post-116634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116634"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116640,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116634\/revisions\/116640"}],"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=116634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}