Posts Tagged with "microsoft"

There is a major security whole affecting several versions of Internet Explorer has been discovered recently. 

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer versions from IE6 to IE11 are all vulnerable to a glitch that could be used by hackers to get remote access to a victim’s PC.

"On completion of this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to protect our customers, which may include providing a solution through our monthly security update release process, or an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs." , - Microsoft stated in their official press release.

According to W3Schools web browser usage stats this security issue may affect on 1 from 10 Internet users.

More or less, every clever IT professional understands that big corporations such as Microsoft and Google are able to read correspondences of Gmail and Skype users.

Recently, I found a post where guys from The H Security explain how they found out that Microsoft actually monitors what you write in Skype.

Actually, it is not a big secret. Everyone who uses Skype, must agree with the item that Microsoft could read everything you write (see privacy statement in Skype). Especially I liked that "Skype may capture and manually review instant messages or SMS in connection". However, it's interesting why they pay their attention to HTTPS links and ignore HTTP.

So, if you use Skype for Internet communication, you should know that it is not 100% private.