More flaws: Bugs hit Firefox, IE

by admin February 19, 2007 at 10:53 am

Your data is at risk…

Microsoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in their respective web browsers.

The vulnerabilities were described last week in postings to a popular security mailing list by researcher Michal Zalewski. Firefox and Internet Explorer could enable miscreants to grab data via malicious websites, Zalewski said.

In addition, another Firefox flaw could let attackers change cookie files on the user’s PC, he said.

Full story: silicon.com