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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. 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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