Comments on: Update Firebug to 1.0.4

By: Thor Larholm

Thor Larholm — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:07:33 +0000

Here is the new vulnerability that caused 1.0.4 to be released, together with some thoughts on Chrome security:

http://larholm.com/2007/04/06/more-0day-in-firebug/

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:46:07 +0000

Time for Firefox to get “Protected Mode”.

By: Rob Sanheim

Rob Sanheim — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:32:55 +0000

Wow, that exploit is pretty serious. Once an attacker can control FF chrome from an *extension*, they basically can do whatever they want to the underlying OS. Something about that doesn’t seem quite right.

By: Mike Ritchie

Mike Ritchie — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:58:14 +0000

/me updates…

How did the article writer know I was a geek?

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:37:38 +0000

Thanks for posting this Dion. :)

By: kongo

kongo — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:09:07 +0000

ouch… this is the blog page that discussed the issue http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/firebug-goes-evil