Microsoft hones Internet Explorer 7 security
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Last week, Microsoft engineers detailed changes to Internet Explorer 7's security model, which will include new security zones not found in IE 6. IE 7 is currently on track for a wide release in 2006, and an even safer version will be included with Windows Vista.
According to a posting by Microsoft's Vishu Gupta, Rob Franco and Venkat Kudulur on IE Blogs, IE 7 will increase its protection of security zones in order to prevent "zone spoofing" attacks, where Internet-based code will attempt to run under the lowered security rules of a different security zone. The Internet zone, where most users browse, will be tightened down with two very notable changes," the post reads.