BlackHats claim Mozilla Firefox is hacker delight
BlackHats claim the famous Mozilla browser aids their dark side activities. BlackHats claim its javascript has an unpatchable hole and say they’ve discovered 30 more holes for their own exploits, including creating a botnet of breached user computers for their own BlackHatter communications network…
“The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple’s Mac OS X and Linux…” [Impossible to Patch by Joris Evers]
Until this flaw is verified and patched, it might be wise to disable javascript on untrusted sites.
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Firefox Not So Fireproof By Jason | Related entries in Corp. News, Speculation, Internet Explorer, Security Fellow b5′er Mary Ford writes about the black hat community finding an “unpatchable” hole in Firefox’s implementation of some javascript along with 30 more vulnerabilities. Since this is the all-so-popular Firefox, this means it’s impacting Windows, Apple and Linux OS’s. The flaw is specific to Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript, a 10-year-old scripting language widely used on the web. In particular, various programming tricks can cause a stack overflow error, Spiegelmock said. The implementation is a “complete mess”, he said, adding: “It is impossible to patch.” [...]