{"id":253,"date":"2005-05-10T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/10\/fatal-flaw-found-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T18:15:21","slug":"fatal-flaw-found-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/10\/fatal-flaw-found-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Flaw Found in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5060'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"537\">\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ffox.gif\" align=\"left\" height=\"78\" width=\"280\">Mozilla, the non-profit group behind<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a><br \/>\nopensource browser, issued an alert, warning users that a combination<br \/>\nof bugs could allow criminals to access users&#8217; private information &#8211;<br \/>\nincluding banking details, logins and passwords.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\nThere is broad concern that hackers may be turning their focus on<br \/>\nFirefox, which initially won over users by promising more secure<br \/>\ninternet surfing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The exploitation of two<br \/>\nseparate flaws in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a><br \/>\nmeans that outside hackers can return to surfers&#8217;s previously visited<br \/>\npages. These could contain<br \/>\ncredit card details or other personal information.<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn, JUST as we got<br \/>\nour new copy of the Fox configured like we<br \/>\nwanted&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,9075-1606392,00.html\">Times of London<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/td>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mozilla, the non-profit group behind the Firefox opensource browser, issued an alert, warning users that a combination of bugs could allow criminals to access users&#8217; private information &#8211; including banking details, logins and passwords. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is broad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/10\/fatal-flaw-found-in-firefox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}