New Security Update For Firefox Fixes High Risk Issues
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The Mozilla Foundation has just released its Firefox 1.0.5 security update for Firefox, coincidentally at the same time as Microsoft released its own monthly security patches for Windows.
Firefox 1.0.5 also upgrades and improves the browser’s stability itself, but the most important aspect of this release is definitely patching some security issues.
Said Michael Sutton, Director of Mozilla’s iDefense Labs, “There are three categories that all the exploits fall into, one category includes issues like frame origin or cross-domain content injection. Those are the vulnerabilities that assist in phishing attacks. About half of the Firefox vulnerabilities fell into that category, at least one for which there was some public exploit code available.”
A dozen security issues have been fixed with Firefox 1.0.5, including issues relating to…
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Barbara
April 22nd, 2007
at 12:26pm
I am running FireFox
When I click on “[Continue reading New Security Update For Firefox Fixes High Risk Issues]” here all I get is a notice “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”
I’m not about to click on that & install anything I have no idea what it is?
Is this a missing file in Word Press for your article there?????
Thanks
Barbara
April 22nd, 2007
at 1:19pm
Nevermind……. I see this is an old article!
it didn’t make any sense anyway since I’m running the latest v2.0.0.3:-(