Hackers Claim Zero-Day Flaw in Firefox
It seems like we canÂ’t have a day pass anymore about hearing some news about a critical this or that. TodayÂ’s exploit comes to us from the JavaScript handlers in FireFox which could allow a hacker to get a hold of your precious data, steal all your food, run your car out of gas, and even turn your lights on and offÂ….ok so IÂ’m stretching a little bit but you get the point.
An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer's Mac OS X and Linux, they said.
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It seems like we canÂ’t have a day pass anymore about hearing some news about a critical this or that. TodayÂ’s exploit comes to us from the JavaScript handlers in FireFox which could allow a hacker to get a hold of your precious data, steal all your food, run your car out of gas, and even turn your lights on and offÂ….ok so IÂ’m stretching a little bit but you get the point.
An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer's Mac OS X and Linux, they said.
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