Re: IE and Secunia SA12889

[Jeff Giacobbe <giacobbej () MAIL MONTCLAIR EDU>]

Colleagues-

On a related question, have these 3 newly-labeled "extremely critical"
IE bugs spurred any increased consideration at your institutions of
alternative browsers such as Firefox?

Montclair State is perhaps in the minority as we have always promoted
Netscape, Mozilla, and most recently Firefox as our browser(s) of choice
for all faculty and staff.  With the mind share and media attention that
Firefox is currently enjoying (deservedly so, IMHO) now may be a unique
opportunity for institutions to begin seriously exploring - no pun
intended - its use as a viable alternative to IE.

--
Jeff Giacobbe
Director of Systems, Security, and Networking
Montclair State University



Gary Dobbins wrote:
> Has anyone had unusual concerns [more than usual] about the IE
> vulnerability recently described on Secunia:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/
>
> "Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can
> be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, conduct
> cross-site/zone scripting and bypass a security feature in Microsoft
> Windows XP SP2.
> "
>
> Some have indicated it's exploitable without user intervention upon
> arriving at a hostile site.
>
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>   Gary Dobbins, CISSP -- Director, Information Security
>   University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technologies
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