As you have probably already heard the last few weeks, in an operation dubbed “Aurora“, Chinese hackers have used a previously undiscovered security hole, existent in several major versions of Internet Explorer, to gain unauthorized access to data belonging to a couple of targeted individuals.
Microsoft has since tried to downplay the significance of the security hole, but it was undoubtedly a serious issue for Microsoft and finally yesterday they have issued a patch to fix the problem.
What this means to you is that if you don't have automatic updates turned on you should go immediately to the micrsoft website and get this update for Internet Explorer (all versions, but you really should be using IE8) http://www.microsoft.com/security/
If you want to read more about this problem and the fix you can find the critical bulletin here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx
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