There is a zero day flaw in Internet explorer, this impacts all versions of the browser but it seemed as though criminals are more focused on IE-8 And IE-9. On zero day, the attack occurs on "day zero" of awareness that the vulnerability exist. Also developers will have zero days to address and patch the vulnerability. It has been discovered that 70 percent of Windows business users are at risk to the IE zero-day exploit. The scope of the problem have been declared bad enough to the point where Microsoft will go "out-of band" to release a fix. People do not have any idea of what exactly but it is believed that the vulnerability has been present since IE-6Hopefully all users are taking necessary measures to ensure that they and reduce their risk as much as possible. Microsoft should also send the "out-of-band" patch as soon as possible. Also some defense mechanism will include the use of "Address space Layout Randomization(ASLR)", It will not prevent it from happening it just makes it extremely harder.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/091913-70-percent-of-business-users-273996.html?page=2
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