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Hacking Firefox via Add-Ons
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-05-31 14:27:43 788
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Thanks Steve @ HardOCP
If you are a Firefox user, and I know a whole bunch of you are, you’d better read this.
"According to Chris Soghoian, the Indiana University doctoral candidate who discovered the weakness, the vulnerability exists for some of the most popular Firefox add-ons, including Google Toolbar, Google Browser Sync, Yahoo Toolbar, Del.icio.us, Facebook Toolbar, AOL Toolbar, Ask.com Toolbar, LinkedIn Browser Toolbar, Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar, PhishTank SiteChecker and a number of others, mainly commercial extensions. Ironically, at least two of the toolbars listed here are designed to help protect users from new security threats."
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