This is definitely the headline news of the morning: there is a zero-day security issue in every version of Internet Explorer. Every one. Including the ones in XP that won’t get patched. “Attacks taking advantage of the vulnerability are largely targeting IE versions 9, 10, and 11 in something called a ‘use after free’s attack. Essentially, the attack corrupts data as soon as memory has been released, most likely after users have been lured to phony websites.” If you are using IE (and I hope you aren’t) your best bet is to switch to some other browser until Microsoft issues a patch.

A little outside the normal ResearchBuzz stuff but it showed up in my Google Alerts yesterday morning and I really liked it. Rhode Island School of Design professor Clara Lieu has been doing an “Ask the Art Professor” column for a year now, and in this blog post summarizes all the available columns. There are about a hundred of them, and while some of them are very specific to art (“How Can I Learn to Draw Noses?”), many of them were relevant to the creative process in general. Professor Lieu’s column continues and is now available at the Huffington Post.

I love me some screenshot/screencast tools. Lifehacker has a writeup on one called TinyTake. Windows only, alas.

Wisconsin fishermen have a new resource for finding particular fish species. A new tool lets users search for 160 species by county or habitat types.

I’m still following Heartbleed. If you’re like me and are taking both a practical and nerdy interest in it, you’ll like this article from Rubin Xu on how he stole a server’s private key using Heartbleed.

More security: apparently a person figured out how to DDOS a site using Facebook Notes, but Facebook isn’t going to give them a bug bounty. (“…the conclusion is that there’s no real way to us fix this that would stop ‘attacks’ against small consumer grade sites without also significantly degrading the overall functionality. Unfortunately, so-called ‘won’t fix’ items aren’t eligible under the bug bounty program, so there won’t be a reward for this issue.”) The other large post on this very new blog is an overview of how a site can be DDOS’d using Google Spreadsheets, which they also won’t be getting a bug bounty for….

Lifehacker has a handy tip for finding all those forgotten accounts with a simple e-mail search. Using specific vocabularies in search is very, very handy.

BetaList has a link to GMail tool Sortd, which sounds almost too good to be true. “Sortd is a smart workspace for Gmail that lets you manage your work, tasks and email all in one place (right inside Gmail). Drag important emails out of your Inbox onto a set of personalized priority lists, where you can see a birds-eye view of everything you have on the go.”

From the design end of things: 7 Things I Wish Every Search Box Did. “Great search experience is all about speed and relevance. You want to provide the right result for minimum effort. Your product needs a search engine that thinks like your users, and one that understands from a few letters exactly what is being searched for. How do you do that? Here’s 7 ways.”

WOW: the entire country of Denmark has been replicated in Minecraft.

Joyce Valenza takes a quick look at Vellum, a New York Times experiment for content discovery on Twitter. If I didn’t have Nuzzel I’d be all over this. As it is, it’s interesting.

Ever wonder just how big Big Data is? Check out this Mashable article on the lengths a woman went to in order to hide knowledge of her pregnancy from the Internet. It went a lot, lot further than just not mentioning it on Facebook. Good morning, Internet…

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