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Germany Warns Against Using Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the fuer-ihre-sicherheit dept.

jayme0227 writes "Due to the recent exploit in Firefox, Germany has warned against its use. This comes a couple months after Germany advised against using IE. Perhaps we should start taking odds as to which browser will be next." Note: the warning (from the Federal Office for Information Security) is provisional, and should be rendered moot by the release later this month of 3.6.2.

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  1. 3.6.2 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup

    1. Re:3.6.2 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.asciipr0n.com/

  2. To add some information to the void.. by Seth+Kriticos · · Score: 4, Informative

    The vulnerability *only* affects the current 3.6 branch. Patch is complete and will be pushed on the 30th of March.

    Here is the Mozilla blog entry on the topic:
    http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38608

    Here is the original bug report:
    http://secunia.com/advisories/38608

    Ps: can we please get security related articles with some content instead of *OMG, we are all going to die!!* ??