Germany warns surfers against Firefox
German's official cyber-security response team is advising surfers not to use Firefox pending the release of a patch to defend against a critical unpatched vulnerability.
BürgerCERT, a division of the German federal government's security in information technology (BSI) department, warned surfers to steer clear of the open source browser until Mozilla releases a fix, due on 30 March. The zero-day vulnerability in the latest full version 3.6 of Firefox was discovered by security researcher Evgeny Legerov last month and explained in much greater depth in our story at the time here. Legerov controversially offered to sell exploit code he developed.
Mozilla acknowledged the security vulnerability on Thursday and promised the the next version of 3.6.2, due at the end of the month, would plug the hole. In the meantime, Mozilla published a beta of Firefox 3.6.2 that addresses the flaw. However this release isn't ready for prime time just yet.
:-) Koriscnicima ostaje sve manji i manji broj browsera... mozda je najbolje da predju na Lynx :-)
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I was running Firefox 3.6 and last night I clicked to open up a page on ThePirateBay and got immediately rooted. Now, I wasn't executing anything, or downloading any torrents, just opening a page with torrent details hit my machine immediately (before you ask, I'm not someone trying to put people off downloading or visiting TPB, other pages on the site were fine, I'm sure it was some rogue ad banner or some crap in the messages). Watched an almighty fight between this and Avast trying to block rootkits and lots of stuff being executied, in the end the rootkit won, Avast dissapeared to be replaced by "Vista Anti-Malware 2010".
New hard disk now in my hands, clean reinstall tonight. Lesson learned. Going to use Chrome for TBP in future. And Avast is going in the bin. Still prefer Firefox in general though...
Ahahaha :) Tuzno zapravo...
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