80 - I have no idea how serious it is, hence the post here, but if you Google 'internet explorer german government' you will see it is a bit more than the BBC! MS as usual playing it down.
DJS - the news says IE6-8 inclusive.
The 'flaws' are nothing new - what the meeja are saying is that the flaws (which were kept 'inside') have been released into the 'wild' so any hacker can use them.
Who knows. Don't want to be the first to find out. Anyone writing web for the 'common people' (and that's me) will be using IE to check the pages. Hopefully if just used 'off-line' there should not be a problem.
SD - any comments?
MS are saying '7-10 days' for a patch.