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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Microsoftzilla

A browser with vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and cross-site scripting attacks. An urgent automatic update to patch eight such vulnerabilities, five of which are rated as critical and the complete set as ‘highly critical’ by security exploits tracker Secunia. And even then missing a password management vulnerability that has been known about since November which can exploit a reverse cross-site request to expose logins. The browser security supremo spinning the whole episode as ‘definitely a good thing’ proving that the client is ‘more secure.’

You might be forgiven for thinking it is the same old same old from Microsoft.

However, this is Mozilla Firefox we are talking about.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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