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Internet Explorer Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Track Mouse Movements

Saturday, December 15, 2012 3:11
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A vulnerability in different versions of Microsoft’s widely used browser Internet Explorer can allow hackers to track the movements of your mouse.
This can potentially reveal sensitive data introduced via virtual keyboards, which are used precisely to avoid data theft via another online threat: key stroke loggers. Spider.io found out that Internet Explorer versions 6 to 10 are vulnerable to this kind of exploitation. What’s worse, hackers could potentially track your movements even if the I.E. window is minimized.
This vulnerability is also apparently very easy to take advantage of. All a hacker needs to do is buy a display ad on any webpage and wait until a user visits it. If the tab… Continue reading…
More About: cybersecurity, exploits, hackers, internet explorer

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  • Both IE and Firefox have lots of back doors because those behind these projects work for big corp and not joe six pack

    Google even use a P3P policy in the header that says “This is not a p3p policy” to fool browsers and those charged with protecting the public says nothing

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