Microsoft rushes out emergency patch to fix zero-day Internet Explorer security flaw

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Patch-up your PCs! Microsoft rushes out fix for yet another "critical" IE security flaw

Microsoft has rushed out an emergency, out-of-band patch to fix a "critical" zero-day security flaw in the Internet Explorer web browser - one that, it warns, hackers may already be exploiting. ...

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