A public exploit for the new security hole in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has now become available – as a module for the Metasploit exploit framework. Since it's likely that other websites will soon begin to actively exploit the hole, this will probably force Microsoft to promptly release a patch. Microsoft had previously only registered a few targeted attacks exploiting the hole in the iepeers.dll component to infect systems. Microsoft said therefore that it would continue to monitor the situation and recommended that users switch to Internet Explorer 8, which is not vulnerable. At the recent RSA conference, the creator of Metasploit, H.D....