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Firefox extension vulnerabilities

Firefox extension vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 27, 2009 20:54 UTC (Thu) by dv1m (guest, #58319)
Parent article: Firefox extension vulnerabilities

If FireFox were to become the dominant web browser in use, it will be really interesting to see how the bad guys start putting out malicious extensions. (look at the problems we are having with ActiveX controls. e.g.: many malicious web sites social engineer a user to install a malicious one, so as to supposedly allow the user to view a video.)

And such a scenario would really make Mozilla rethink.


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