Mozilla Duped by Hacker's 'Humorous' Presentation
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A Firefox 'flaw' revealed at a hacker conference over the weekend was a joke, hacker admits.
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Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox.
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Mozilla disclosed Monday that it had opened up a vulnerability with a previous security fix for its Firefox, Seamonkey, and Thunderbird clients. According to an advisory issued Monday, a new JavaScript issue was introduced that would allow coding from Web content to be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
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Mozilla's updated e-mail client lands with new tools and a slick new UI. The software's still not ready for prime time, but it looks like the final version will be impressive. In Monkey Bites.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla's security chief Tuesday panned a pair of Firefox bugs revealed Monday as low-level threats but hours later changed her mind and said that when used together, they could pose a greater risk. The researcher who disclosed the vulnerabilities agreed with her. Mostly. Michael Zalewski, who regularly publishes browser flaw findings, on Monday posted details on the Full-disclosure mailing list about four browser vulnerabilities, including two affecting Firefox. He categorized one as a "major" threat, and he saw the other as only a "medium" threat. In an entry on the Mozilla security blog -- which debuted last week -- Window Snyder, the company's chief security officer, said the more serious of the two bugs found by Zalewski was no more than a spoofing vulnerability and deserved only a "low" rating. "This is unsafe because it could be used to lure a user to enter content into the spoofed frame but does not result in code execution," said Snyder. "[For example] this might be used with phishing attacks." Her take doesn't jibe with Zalewski's contention that the flaw can be used to stick malicious code onto the victimized computer. "By my book, [this is] more serious than just spoofing, so I marked it as 'major,' whereas Mozilla still considers it to be a typical case of spoofing ('low')," said Zalewski in an e-mail interview Wednesday. "But it would be inaccurate to say that Window's assessment contradicts my analysis." Later Tuesday, Snyder updated her blog, saying that after further review, "these two bugs may be used together to allow an attacker to access any file the user has access to on the system. If this is the case, that may change the severity rating to 'medium'." Zalewski dismissed the idea that he and Mozilla's Snyder were at odds and instead turned attention to what he thinks is most important. "All in all, I think we pretty much agree here," he said. "The big issue [of the four vulnerabilities] was the Microsoft Internet Explorer flaw. The other three are important, but not critical." According to entries in Mozilla's Bugzilla, the more serious of the two Firefox flaws has not yet been assigned to someone for a fix. Snyder, meanwhile, said that the Mozilla security team is looking into changes to improve content handler management, the root cause of the bug she pegged as "low." Zalewski on Monday noted on the Full-disclosure mailing list that it appears Apple's Safari browser is also vulnerable to same bug he found in IE6 and IE7 and labeled "critical." Tuesday, Kevin Finisterre, a researcher known for the "Month of Apple Bugs" project in January, confirmed Zalewski's Safari suspicions. Apple officials did not reply to a request for comment.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.
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A bug in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond
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Secunia issued a warning that the so-called tabbed browsing function in many alternative Web browsers from Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, Avant, Camino and others leave users vulnerable to spoofed
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Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 has long been considered a safer Web browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but a new flaw in the Firefox Password Manager, which lets users store usernames and passwords for trusted Web sites, could let hackers steal their login data.
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An e-mail that tricks Linux users to download a fake update from Red Hatâs security team is currently doing the rounds of the Internet.
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Cure worse than disease The Mozilla Foundation has patched a faulty patch that was itself subject to a security vulnerability.â¦
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At ToorCon conference in San Diego, hackers' presentation includes both dark humor and serious discussion.
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A year-old QuickTime bug that hackers to hijack PCs and Macs with Firefox installed,  has Mozilla Corp. scrambling for a fix, according to Mozilla's chief security officer.
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Basic authentication sucks Flaws in the way the latest version of Mozilla Firefox presents authentication dialog boxes leave the door open for cybercrooks to trick users into handing over login credentials, a leading security researcher warns.â¦
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A security researcher has found a security bug that could be attacked in Internet Explorer. Mozilla Corp. said it plans to patch the problem in its next Firefox software update.
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A zero-day flaw in Firefox and third-party Windows patches turn up the heat for Net users. Plus: Buyout boom in security.
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Following the launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla delivers an E-mail client. A calendaring application may be next. By John Foley.