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• Hey, Mozilla: Quotes Are Not Legal in a URL

  When I was a child, I learned a saying that I still find important to keep in mind: Those who are sitting in a glass house shall not throw stones The good folks at Mozilla may want to look up what that really means. Two days ago, Mozilla published Firefox version 2.0.0.5 to fix a security vulnerability Read More... Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 1:25 AM from Jesper's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Windows Vista, Security

• Blocking the Firefox -> IE 0-day

  Thor Larholm, unhelpfully, published details on what he claims is a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday. This exploit is actually for Firefox, but Thor exploited it by making IE launch Firefox. Firefox creates three protocol handlers. A protocol handler is essentially a mapping from an Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:55 AM from Jesper's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Security