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Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2

Posted by kdawson on from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe dept.

Continent1106 writes "Hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2.0. The vulnerabilities could cause cookie stealing, page hijacking, memory corruption, code execution, and URL bar spoofing attacks." Here is Zalewski's post to Full Disclosure.

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  1. What about Flock? by ringfinger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone have info on how stacks up to IE/FF? http://30days.itious.com/

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  2. Re:Go old NoScript by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wish NoScript were the default behavior.

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  3. Re:Nice Bit of Trolling by jp10558 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm pretty sure that CSS is faster and more efficient (as you don't have to redownload the whole thing every time - and there were several stories that said it would save /. lots of bandwidth charges) for any browser made in the last, what - 7 years?

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