IE7 Beta 2 Vulnerability Discovered in just 15 minutes!

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IE7 Beta 2 Vulnerability Discovered in just 15 minutes! NIST.org 02-01-2006
Posted by NIST.org on February 1, 2006, 11:55 pm
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On the day of its release security researcher Tom Ferris at Security
Protocols needed just 15 minutes to find the first vulnerability in IE7
Beta 2 and write an exploit for it. This is believed to be a new
record.

You can read the article at:
http://www.nist.org/news.php?extend.75

One can only imagine the meetings at Microsoft when upper level
management asked the programmers exactly what they spent the Millions
of Dollars they were given to improve security in Internet Explorer 7.
And why dozens of programmers and testers didn't find a bug that this
one person found in just 15 minutes. At most companies heads would
roll!

John Herron, CISSP
http://www.NIST.org


Posted by Jbob on February 2, 2006, 1:03 am
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> On the day of its release security researcher Tom Ferris at Security
> Protocols needed just 15 minutes to find the first vulnerability in IE7
> Beta 2 and write an exploit for it. This is believed to be a new
> record.
>

Not sure here but wasn't this a preview of Beta 2 and not the actual Beta 2
release?



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