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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Firefox Vulnerable To 7-Year-Old Bug

"Mozilla's current browsers, including the popular stand-alone Firefox, are susceptible ... to a seven-year-old vulnerability that could let attackers spoof Web sites, a security company said Monday," reports TechWeb News.

"According to Danish security firm Secunia, Mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.x are vulnerable to a frame injection flaw that first surfaced in 1998. Hackers could exploit the bug to insert their own content into the view of a legitimate site, to, for instance, pose as the log-in frame, then collect usernames and passwords to online bank accounts."

Comment: How many holey bug-fixed versions of Firefox have we had to download in the past three months? I've lost count.... ;-)

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