Firefox Exploit – Your Google Account is Succeptible
Recently, a number of Firefox security holes have been found and exploited. The most serious one, involving a rogue JAR file, can give non-google parties to access the information from your google account, according to dailyApps. The type of exploit is a type of XSS or Cross-Site-Scripting attack.
You can protect yourself by sticking to trusted websites and not downloading anything that you don’t trust. dailyApps recommends using the noScript Firefox Extension – a Firefox plugin that blocks ALL scripts from sites that you haven’t personally approved, so as long as you excercise a bit of prudence, you’ll be protected from this and many other vulnerabilities.
Both Google and Firefox have a responsibility to protect their users and so they should be patching this up soon. Until then, keep safe and be responsible.
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