Oct 4, 2007 1 pm
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The flaw, which affects Windows XP and Windows Vista machines, opens up a backdoor that could enable a hacker to break into Firefox.
The company released an update for the Windows version of QuickTime media player on Wednesday afternoon to patch what Apple calls a “command injection issue” in the way the media player handles URLs. The flaw, which affects Windows XP and Windows Vista, was first disclosed in September of 2006 by Petko D. Petkov, a penetration tester.
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Sep 24, 2007 2 pm
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Firefox 3 would use less memory than Firefox 2 did, hopefully.
Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox’s memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately.
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Sep 21, 2007 3 pm
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Security features debut in latest preview, as Firefox 3.0 heads down the stretch
With the release Firefox 3.0 alpha 8, the Mozilla Corporation has finally unveiled several security features it’s talked up for months. Among the security provisions debuting in the new alpha of “Gran Paradiso,” the code name for Firefox 3.0, are built-in anti-malware warnings and protection against rogue extension updates. The malware blocker, which was first mocked up in June, will block Web sites thought to contain malicious downloads. The feature will use information provided by Google Incorporated to flag potentially-dangerous sites, warn anyone trying to reach those URLs with Firefox and automatically block access to the site.
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Sep 20, 2007 2 am
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Users running Firefox are vulnerable to IE flaws via files supported by Windows Media Player, a researcher shows.
Running Firefox or Opera as a default browser won’t save you from unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities—a fact made explicit when a researcher showed how easy it is to put HTML inside files supported by Windows Media Player.
Researcher Petko D. Petkov said in a Sept. 18 blog posting that he’s found that a fully patched Windows XP Service Pack 2 system running Internet Explorer 6 or 7 along with Windows Media Player 9—the default, although the media player is now up to Version 11—will open any page of an attacker’s choice even if the default browser is not Internet Explorer.
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Sep 19, 2007 11 am
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Six days after proof-of-concept code was released for a long-unpatched bug in Apple’s QuickTime media player, Firefox is updated with a fix.
Last week, Mozilla confirmed that a year-old unpatched vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime media player opens up a backdoor that could allow a hacker to break into Firefox. A researcher who discovered the flaw posted proof-of-concept exploits for it on his blog.
Now a week later, Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.7 to patch the QuickTime vulnerability.
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Aug 18, 2007 2 pm
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Adblock effectively robs these free sites of their revenue. If Internet Explorer came with a feature such as Adblock, it would effectively wipe out thousands of websites, maybe more. These are the same free sites users of Adblock frequently visit. The irony is how this is self-defeating.
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