German Government tells all users of Internet Explorer.. to stop NOW

The German government is clearly taking the latest critical security problem in Internet Explorer seriously, publicly urging all users to stop browsing the web with the Microsoft product until a patch is available.

The German government’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published an advisory, telling Internet Explorer users to switch to alternative browsers until a patch is released for a zero day vulnerability that emerged over the weekend.

Here’s a translation of the German advisory…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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