Security hole in IE tracks user's mouse movements

A security hole discovered in Internet Explorer has been found to be potent enough to track a user's cursor movements, even if their window is inactive, minimised or unfocused. Naked Security reports that the vulnerability was first brought to light by spider.io, vendor of a hosted platform that the company says allows users to distinguish between human website visitors and bots in real time. Interestingly, Spider.io informed the existence of the flaw to Microsoft in October, while adding that the IE version 6-10 were affected. While Microsoft Security Research Center admitted to there being a flaw, it informed spider.io that it has "no immediate plans" to patch it in existing browser versions; it was then that it revealed the flaw. 

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