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UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6

pcardno writes “The UK government has responded to a petition encouraging government departments to move away from IE6 that had over 6,000 signatories. Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls and malware scanning tools are in place, and that mandating an upgrade away from IE6 will be too expensive. The second part is fair enough in this age of austerity (I’d rather have my taxes spent on schools and hospitals than software upgrade testing at the moment), but the whole reaction will be a disappointment to the petitioners.”
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Principais ameaças a operações bancárias on-line

A confiança é a base de qualquer bom relacionamento. E isso nunca provou ser tão verdadeiro, ou mais vital, que no relacionamento entre provedores de serviços financeiros e seus clientes. Sem a confiança de que suas informações financeiras estejam protegidas, é pouco provável que os consumidores usem serviços on-line.
Published by: SafeNet, Inc.

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Source: Tech Target

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Tighter security coming in Firefox 4

At Black Hat, a trio of security representatives from Mozilla detailed how the company plans to push the browser to be more secure for users while nudging developers toward safer coding practices.

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Source: C|Net news.com

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Tighter security coming in Firefox 4

At Black Hat, a trio of security representatives from Mozilla detailed how the company plans to push the browser to be more secure for users while nudging developers toward safer coding practices.

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Source: CNET News.com - Security

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CVE-2010-2754 (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)

dom/base/nsJSEnvironment.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, Thunderbird 3.0.x before 3.0.6 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6 does not properly suppress a script’s URL in certain circumstances involving a redirect and an error message, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about script parameters via a crafted HTML document, related to the window.onerror handler.

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Source: National Vulnerability Database

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Posted on July 30th, 2010 in Latest News, National Vulnerability Db | No Comments »

CVE-2010-2755 (firefox)

layout/generic/nsObjectFrame.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7 does not properly free memory in the parameter array of a plugin instance, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to the DATA and SRC attributes of an OBJECT element. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-1214.

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Source: National Vulnerability Database

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Mozilla Firefox CSS font-face Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox.

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Source: Security Team

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How to use App Tabs in Firefox (video)

Mozilla has given tabs some long-overdue love in the second Firefox 4 beta with App Tabs, a feature that annihilates your scramble to search for that one elusive open tab. Watch what it does in this How To video.

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Source: C|Net news.com

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Vuln: Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey DOM Cloning Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey DOM Cloning Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Source: Security Focus

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Infinity Downline Reviews - “Infinity Downline Reviews” FireFox Toolbar.

“Infinity Downline Reviews” Custom FireFox Toolbar. Opens as install in FireFox.

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Source: New Entries at Internet Product Watch

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