{"id":45339,"date":"2012-03-09T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=45339"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T08:00:36","slug":"internet-explorer-9-no-match-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/45339-internet-explorer-9-no-match-for-hackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer 9 no match for hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fully up to date version of <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> Internet Explorer 9, running on a Windows 7 system with service pack 1 installed, fell prey to hackers in a matter of minutes at an international browser hacking competition.<\/p>\n<p>France-based Vupen security who achieved the hacks says that they have enough \u201czero-day\u201d exploits on hand to cause headaches for <a title=\"IE9\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387173-Internet-Explorer\">IE9<\/a>, <a title=\"Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368084-Chrome\">Chrome<\/a>, <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> and <a title=\"Safari\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313867-Safaricom\">Safari<\/a> web browsers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we want to show is there is no 100-percent security,&#8221; said Vupen Security CEO Chaouki Bekrar. &#8220;So even if you have a fully updated system, you can still get your system compromised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vupen claim to have used \u201c100-percent IE code\u201d for the attack, and did not have to rely on system kernel code of third-party plugins that would open the browser up to easier exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Ars Technica News site\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/03\/ie-9-on-latest-windows-gets-stomped-at-hacker-contest.ars\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s IE9 browser falls prey to hackers despite best system protection to date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9669,1567,981,123,985],"class_list":["post-45339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-chaouki-bekrar","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-microsoft","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45341,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45339\/revisions\/45341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}