[MIX09] Day 2 Internet Explorer 8 To Officially Launch; But Security Already Breached

ie8logoIt’s all about Internet Explorer 8 today at Mix09.

At a keynote (in a couple minutes), Dean Hachamovitch, the general manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft, will formally unveil the browser; which can be downloaded here. You can learn more about IE8 features here.

Internet Explorer 8 security is already breached

A day earlier, a hacker attending the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver ran a successful exploit against IE8, defying Microsoft’s latest built in protection technologies- DEP (Data Execution Prevention) as well as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization).

The exploit was done during the PWN2OWN hacking contest held at CanSecWest and sponsored by security company TippingPoint; which started the Zero Day Initiative “rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.”

Security is one of Microsoft’s major talking point for the IE8 release. Oh, well… next time :-)

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6 Responses to [MIX09] Day 2 Internet Explorer 8 To Officially Launch; But Security Already Breached

  1. IE8 says:

    so…. do yo have any links to this exploit, and does it work in the RTW version?

  2. jeffb says:

    It should be noted that although IE8 fell later, Apple’s Safari was the first to get hacked. It didn’t last two minutes.

  3. maraghy says:

    what about security !!
    By the way , LINUX is the best & FireFox is the winner !

  4. Karlsse says:

    i am a firefox user more than an internet explorer user but it seems that Internet explorer 8 is very stable and it its loading time for webpages is faster too.

  5. I think the IE8 is better than IE7,it makes more easier

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