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Old 10-11-2012, 07:01 PM   #1
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LXer: Sites can slurp browser history right out of Firefox 16


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A hole in Firefox 16 makes it possible for a malicious site to access a user's browsing history, Mozilla security chief Michael Coates revealed in a blog yesterday. Mozilla 16 was released on Tuesday but pulled a day later because of the vulnerability which would allow a hacker to suck out URLs from the browser history of a visitor of a malicious page.

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Old 10-11-2012, 09:15 PM   #2
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Mozilla has already released an update to fix this issues.

 
  


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