Thursday, March 03, 2005

In which the honeymoon ends for Mozilla

Hackers never cease to amaze me. I suppose if you throw several thousand minds against any wall, sooner or later one of them will finally stick, but it appears that Mozilla Firefox has released its first security update since it went 1.0. Quite a clever trick, too. It seems that Firefox supports URLs expressed in all Unicode characters. As a result, phishing hackers can misdirect users by exploiting the fact that though the Cyrillic letter a (shouldn't that be alpha?) looks identical to English's version, it's a different Unicode character.

1 Comments:

Blogger jimbo said...

Hey, Scott! Thanks for stopping by.

IE 7 isn't going to be that great, from what I'm reading. No tabbed browsing, no nice plugin architecture, just more security patches. It'll probably look real purty though, more like the Longhorn look-and-feel.

4:30 PM  

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