Major Firefox Security Flaw Uncovered
CNET reports that Secunia has uncovered a "highly critical" security flaw in Firefox 2.0 and later versions, which can allow a malicious attacker to gain remote control of your computer.
When Firefox first came out, a compelling reason to switch from Microsoft explorer was that Firefox was more secure. At the time, it's userbase was extremely small and dominated by very geeky people. As Firefox gains mainstream adoption, it seems to me that bad new like this had to happen. If users are moving from one browser to the other, then the bad guys are pretty certain to follow.
Hi Shel --
We're about to post on the Moz blog about this, but the vulnerability here is when you're using *IE* and click on a particular type of link, it asks for a helper app (in this case Firefox) to open the link. The MS team isn't going to address it; at Mozilla we will in 2.0.0.5.
Your main point is probably still right, but I think this isn't a great example of the problem.
Posted by: John Lilly | July 10, 2007 at 02:50 PM