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Friday, November 24, 2006

Firefox Password Manager Compromised

It seems a flaw in the way Firefox handles passwords is enabling evil doers to create Phishing holes at sites where .html is allowed such as myspace.com - no fix has been issued but Secunia is advising users to disable the "Remember passwords for sites" option in Firefox preferences.

Posted by Matthew Carrick at 10:20.16 AM EST | Permanent Link

| Categories: Best Practices, Mozilla Firefox, Security Alerts
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