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Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here."

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  1. Re:Moo by pipatron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +1 Funny. :)

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  2. Interesting Spin by chrpai · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It is interesting that when IE is involved the exploit is a certainty but when Firefox is involved it's only `claimed`. Slashdot Article Titles: IE: Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild aMS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found PowerPoint 0-Day Points to Corporate Espionage Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs FireFox; Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox

  3. Re:Firefox has become IE by October_30th · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nope. I just miss the days when Firefox/Mozilla were such niche browsers that nobody bothered writing malicious web pages to target them.

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  4. Re:Proof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Given the way that these guys are touting how Firefox is vulnerable because they were able to find a bug that they refused to warn the firefox team about (like that refusal is Firefox's fault) I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that they managed to get some funding (either direct or indirect) from Microsoftl.
    Now that is just defamatory. There doesn't have to be an extraordinary reason for some people being assholes. They just are.
  5. NoScript plugin by AlgorithMan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    use the noscript plugin...
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ make a whitelist containing your REALLY trusted sites
    never worry about this again...

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