{"id":303134,"date":"2019-04-15T07:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=303134"},"modified":"2019-04-15T07:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:41:49","slug":"internet-explorer-causes-new-exploit-whether-you-use-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/303134-internet-explorer-causes-new-exploit-whether-you-use-it-or-not.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer causes new exploit &#8211; Whether you use it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer has been found to cause a new Windows exploit even if you use a different web browser, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/internet-explorer-hack-could-steal-users-data-even-if-you-use-chrome-or-firefox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TechRadar<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw was found by security researcher John Page, who confirmed that simply having Internet Explorer on your computer is enough for this exploit to be utilised by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Page, the exploit allows hackers to gain access to user data stored within users&#8217; Windows operating system installations.<\/p>\n<p>Page claims to have reached out to Microsoft in March, but the company reportedly responded simply by saying that &#8220;a fix for this issue will be considered in a future version of this product or service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The hack reportedly exploits Internet Explorer&#8217;s tendency to save individual web pages in a .MHT format. Since newer browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox don&#8217;t allow this format, Internet Explorer is the default app used to open .MHT files.<\/p>\n<p>Page explains how the exploit works below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fbLNbCjgJeY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/302886-domain-registry-lock-for-za-being-explored.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Domain Registry Lock for .ZA being explored<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer has been found to cause a new Windows exploit, even if you use a different web browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":151509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[979,58580,983],"class_list":["post-303134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-browser","tag-data-hack","tag-internet-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303134"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303140,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303134\/revisions\/303140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}