Mozilla Admits Firefox Has Same Flaw as IE
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Mozilla chief security officer says Firefox has the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in IE, patch is in the works.
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Mozilla will patch Firefox but Microsoft won't update IE--and each points fingers for the problem.
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Ten security flaws found in Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client.
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Mozilla is working to fix a browser flaw that could give attackers unauthorized access to data on a victim's machine.
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Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer, used on a machine with the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox browser installed, can create a pass-along security breach, according to security researchers.
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Security firm Secunia has issued an advisory regarding a newly discovered "highly critical" security flaw in Firefox 2.0 and later, which involves a special URI handler. Although the problem was initially attributed to Internet Explorer by researcher Thor Larholm, Firefox is the culprit.
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The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming - not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE.
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Mozilla is working to fix a browser flaw that could give attackers unauthorized access to data on a victim&#39;s machine.The problem is similar to other&#160;data leakage&#160;flaws found in the open-source browser, according to researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, who first reported the problem on Saturday.Eisenhaur has posted sample code that reads the contents of a Mozilla Thunderbird preferences file, but he believes that attackers could get access to more information with variations on his attack. &quot;It&#39;s possible to load any JavaScript file on a victim&#39;s machine,&quot; he wrote in his blog posting. &quot;This looks very interesting and may have bigger potential, but for now, it&#39;s just another information disclosure [flaw].&quot;&quot;It could become something more if there was an application that stored sensitive data inside JavaScript files,&quot; he said via instant message. &quot;Some plugins have been known to store usernames and passwords.&quot;&quot;Its also just a powerful way to do recon,&quot; he added.Hackers have discovered a number of flaws in recent months that take advantage of the way that browsers pass information between different components within the Windows operating system. Some of these URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol handler flaws have led to serious security problems for both Firefox and Internet Explorer.This latest flaw affects only certain Firefox add-ons, such as the Download Statusbar or Greasemonkey, which store scripts in a fashion that lets them be discovered on the hard drive, said Window Snyder, Mozilla&#39;s security chief in a Wednesday blog posting.Firefox is investigating the issue and has rated it as a low-severity problem, she said.
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Opera Browser - Firefox Not the Only IE Alternative  Security flaws have long plagued Internet Explorer (IE), the market-dominating web browser from Microsoft. IE won the early browser wars, not only because it was free and bundled with Windows, but because it had some features and capabilities that its only real ...
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InfoWorld - With the release of its latest Firefox 2.0.0.5 browser, open-source software maker Mozilla claims to have fixed a number of potentially serious vulnerabilities in its flagship product.
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Looking for an alternative to Internet Explorer that addresses IE's notorious security flaws and has killer search capabilities to boot?  Look no farther: Firefox is truly a searcher's browser.
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TechWeb - A new proof-of-concept code is circulating for a Firefox vulnerability that was fixed in Mozilla's security update that was released last week.
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Zawodny  threads off of Scoble  on the IE issue:  "I have to say, when I first read that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I was thinking "how stupid ARE these IE guys?!?!?!" But we all know that Microsoft is full of smart people who care about what they're doing. So something really doesn't compute here."  "Last time I checked, IE wasn't even close to feature parity with Mozilla's browsers. No popup blocking, no tabbed browsing, etc."  "Does the IE team really not know what their product is missing?"  Perhaps.  It's highly likely that they just don't know.  The bigger issue here is that Microsoft products can't fail and they can't succeed.  Microsoft has 40-50 billion in the bank.  There ...
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla Corp. developers have released an updated version of their Firefox browser that fixes a number of security issues, four of them rated critical. The update was released late Thursday, and Firefox users should receive the 1.5.0.7 patches via the browser's automatic update system over the next few days, according to Mozilla. Research firm Secunia rates the flaws as "highly critical," saying that they can be exploited to "conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system," according toÂ this Secunia alert. In addition to the four critical patches, the software also fixes three less-critical issues and offers some stability enhancements according to the Mozilla Web site, which also includesÂ details about the security vulnerabilities. Browser hackers have traditionally focused on Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, but as Firefox's market share has grown it has become a more attractive target. Firefox is now used by about 13 percent of Web surfers, according to research firm OneStat.com. It has been a busy week for IT administrators looking to stay on top of security. Important security patches were also released by Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. On Tuesday, Microsoft releasedÂ its monthly set of security patches, fixing a critical bug in its Publisher product. The company also re-released two of its August patches to fix bugs in the updates. That was followed Wednesday by Apple's fix for its QuickTime multimedia software. This update, rated as highly critical by Secunia, fixes six bugs in the product. More details on the QuickTime update can be found onÂ this page of Apple's Web site. Â
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Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which has just been released. Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the program is not a game or a music or movie player.
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Mozilla will patch a security bug in Firefox that could be attacked in Internet Explorer.
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Update to "critical" Internet Explorer patch repairs a serious security flaw introduced by the original version.