by Ryan Naraine at ZDNet
In the face of an uptick in hacker attacks targeted a zero-day flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft has announced plans to ship an emergency IE patch tomorrow (March 30, 2010).
The out-of-band update comes exactly 21 days after Microsoft said it was aware of targeted attacks against Windows users running its flagship browser.
The vulnerability in question only affects Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, and Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
Two weeks ago, an Israeli hacker was able to piece together clues to reproduce the vulnerability and release exploit code into the Metasploit hacking tool. Since then, there has been a slight uptick in attacks seen in the wild and this forced Microsoft to push ahead with plans for an out-of-band update.
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