Firefox Extensions Waiting to Be Exploited

  • June 20, 2007
  • 1 minute read
With anything that is open source, bugs and exploits will be found. However, this makes it easy for developers to patch these issues. As they know the code that is causing the problem, and usually the hacker will provide a patch for them that just needs to be reviewed. However, this is a real concern for myself, since I use over 10 FireFox extension. Firefox Extensions Waiting to Be Exploited – Do you think you are safe with Firefox? In general, I would agree with you. But at the same time, I would also point out that there is a fairly sizable security concern that may be addressed, as effectively as some security experts might like. It’s called the Firefox extension. [WArp2Search]

With anything that is open source, bugs and exploits will be found. However, this makes it easy for developers to patch these issues. As they know the code that is causing the problem, and usually the hacker will provide a patch for them that just needs to be reviewed. However, this is a real concern for myself, since I use over 10 FireFox extension.

Firefox Extensions Waiting to Be Exploited – Do you think you are safe with Firefox? In general, I would agree with you. But at the same time, I would also point out that there is a fairly sizable security concern that may be addressed, as effectively as some security experts might like. It’s called the Firefox extension. [WArp2Search]

Did you like this article?


0 Shares:
Share 0
Tweet 0
Share 0
Share 0
— Previous article

Yahoo! in Talks to Buy MySpace: Is That a Good Idea Nowadays?

Next article —

TweakVista open beta begins

You May Also Like

New Zealand teenager arrested as Botnet Leader

  • by
  • November 30, 2007
A New Zealand teenager was arrested and then freed of charges today for allegedly being the Leader of a Bot/Spybot network. The New Zealand E-crime unit arrested the teenager on suspicion of stealing over 9.7 Million Pounds from bank accounts around the world and breaking into an estimated 1.3 Million computers. The full quote from the Guardian..
Read More

How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu w/ Rhythmbox

  • by
  • October 11, 2007
I know that you can get your ipod working within Linux using gtkipod, and if you actually mount the file system on the ipod you can then write to it use gtkipod. I don't know why jailbreaking and mounting the iphone is required. Good read though.
How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu w/ Rhythmbox - >>>>>>>> This is the Best Damn Guide EVER written to stream media from your iPhone to your Ubuntu PC using Rythmbox.
Read More

Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts

  • by
  • June 24, 2007
This is really funny, NSA employee's have problems trusting each other.
Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts - An anonymous reader writes "Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn't keep up with the growing electricity demand ... the problem has got worse. The 'NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions'. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

 [Slasdot]
Read More