Paul Stanway Jr
07-20-2005, 07:43 PM
Firefox update squashes security bugs
By Joris Evers
CNET News.com
The Mozilla Foundation has fixed several security flaws in its Firefox browser, but initially left people in the dark about what some of the issues entail.
Firefox 1.0.5, released Tuesday, patches a dozen bugs in the open-source Web browser, some of them "high risk," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at Mozilla. High-risk problems typically allow an intruder to commandeer a PC or expose the user's data.
Read more at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5785672.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnet
By Joris Evers
CNET News.com
The Mozilla Foundation has fixed several security flaws in its Firefox browser, but initially left people in the dark about what some of the issues entail.
Firefox 1.0.5, released Tuesday, patches a dozen bugs in the open-source Web browser, some of them "high risk," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at Mozilla. High-risk problems typically allow an intruder to commandeer a PC or expose the user's data.
Read more at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5785672.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnet