Thursday, December 15, 2005

Firefox users beware

Computer users who have not upgraded to the latest version of Firefox have to do so in order to remain safe, thanks to a hacker named Aviv Raff.

He has published a sample code http://aviv.raffon.net/2005/12/11/MozillaUnderestimateVulnerabilityYetAgainPlusOldVuln
erabilityNewExploit.aspx) that could be used to take over the computers of Firefox
users running version 1.0.4 or earlier of the browser. The exploit takes advantage of a known bug (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-50.html) in the way that Firefox processes the popular Javascript Web programming language.

This bug is patched in latest version of Firefox. So you may download Firefox + Google Toolbar from the right sidebar of this Blog using the button below Google Ads.

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