Stop What You’re Doing and Update Firefox

Pesky Firefox bug

Mozilla on Thursday announced that it rolled out security fixes for a bug in Firefox that was discovered by a user. What the user found was that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was able to take advantage of a vulnerability in Firefox to search for sensitive files on a user’s PC and upload them to a server in Ukraine.

The exploit involves Firefox’s built-in PDF Viewer and “the interaction …read more

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