When even the Department of Homeland Security is warning against using Internet Explorer, it’s a safe bet its security flaws are serious. But for many healthcare providers — notably those still running on Windows XP — IE’s recently-exposed vulnerabilities won’t be fixed by Microsoft.
Microsoft confirmed this week that versions 6 through 11 of Internet Explorer “are susceptible to a newly discovered vulnerability, and that cyberattackers have already exploited the flaw.”
