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5 Year Old Mozilla Firefox Tops Vulnerability List

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 09:25 AM PST

firefox 3.5 logoWhile Mozilla Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Cenzic, an application security vendor, claims that the Mozilla Firefox led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities.

This is certainly not a good news for Mozilla.

According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of 2009. In contrast, Apple’s Safari had 35 percent of all reported browser vulnerability, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was third at 15 percent and Opera had just six percent share.

Does it make Firefox a dangerous web browser?

The Firefox plug-ins are one of the main reasons of the vulnerabilities. Mozilla launched a plug-in checker in Oct 2009 to address the problem.

Irony, while Firefox has the most vulnerabilities, Cenzic themselves use Mozilla technology within its own solutions.

[via InternetNews.com]

Tip: Install NoScript addon to make your Firefox safer.

Warning: First iPhone Worm Discovered

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:08 AM PST

For iPhone/iPod Touch users. The first ever iPhone worm has been discovered in Australia. The infected iPhones will have their wallpaper changed to an image of Rick Astley.

wallpaper of iphone infected by ikee worm

The wallpaper has an message “ikee is never going to give you up”.

The worm is capable of breaking into jailbroken iPhones if their owners have not changed the default password after installing SSH.

Once the worm broke in, it will find the other iPhones in the mobile phone network with similarly vulnerable and spread itself to them again.

Anyway, your iPhone is safe if you haven’t jailbreak it or have not installed SSH.

You must always change your root user password if you have jailbroken you iPhone or iPod Touch, and installed SSH.

More information about the worm and the worm’s author here.

Who is Rick Astley? Click here for information about the 1980s pop singer.