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Firefox bug could secretly upload your files, so update your browser now
Masahble ^
| August 7, 2015
| Raymond Wong
Posted on 08/07/2015 12:19:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An exploit discovered on Wednesday could potentially search your local files and upload them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine, according to a blog post Mozilla published on Thursday. The company strongly recommends users update to the Firefox 39.0.3 or Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 38.1.1.
(Excerpt) Read more at mashable.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: firefox; mozilla; windows
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:19:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Firefox suggested this upgrade this morning.
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:33:28 PM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: BenLurkin
The Ruskies, at it again.
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:35:13 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: BenLurkin
Done did!.................
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:36:36 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: BenLurkin
Hillary can blame Firefox.
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:37:49 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: b4its2late
Mrs. Clinton and Lois Lerner should be cellmates.
Just my opinion.
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:39:09 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Still happy with 3.6.18
Anything past that shuffles my taskbar tabs.
I only have 1 gig memory on XP and the latest and greatest are memory hogs.
To: BenLurkin
Wonder if Pale Moon is affected.
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:53:19 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/07/2015 12:59:45 PM PDT
by
duffee
(No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/07/2015 1:02:24 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: BenLurkin
First thing this morning before doing anything else.
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posted on
08/07/2015 1:02:38 PM PDT
by
Randy Larsen
(Aim small, Miss small.)
To: BenLurkin
awww.....not this sh*t again!
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Is this on all OS’s?
The security bug affects Windows and Linux users; Mac users are reportedly safe, though "would not be immune," according to the post by Mozilla lead security expert Daniel Veditz.
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posted on
08/07/2015 1:29:55 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Heard on TV that Macs are okay for now.
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posted on
08/07/2015 1:35:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
JavaScript related.
As I've said many times before, JavaScript is the root of all evil.
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posted on
08/07/2015 1:47:25 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: BenLurkin
Or the upgrade loads NSA spyware.
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posted on
08/07/2015 2:07:59 PM PDT
by
bgill
( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: 867V309
As I've said many times before, JavaScript is the root of all evil. Without JavaScript the web as we know it would not exist.
It is better said that evil people are using JavaScript for evil purposes.
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posted on
08/07/2015 2:08:43 PM PDT
by
sand88
(We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
To: BenLurkin
I am running the latest Waterfox.
When the word ‘files’ is always screamed, in this kind of warning, what, exactly, do they mean?
I do not use Office, or any productivity programs. I use wordpad, when i do, or notepad, mostly. i do not ‘save’ any passwords, of anything. i have no pictures of any family things, since i am the end of the bloodline. any writings are in ‘pdf’ format. no financial anything on the machine, that has always been pen and ink, which is the basis of any of my ‘writings’, too.
To: sand88
Without JavaScript the web as we know it would not exist.
It is better said that evil people are using JavaScript for evil purposes.
OK, I'll go along with that. I use it in my code too. But almost all problems since the bad old days of buffer overruns and image exploits are JS related. That makes it bad.
NoScript is the cure.
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posted on
08/07/2015 2:28:09 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/07/2015 3:15:38 PM PDT
by
CPT Clay
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