Re: zero-day flaws in Firefox: about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws

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According to this article it was a hoax... So who is telling the truth,
and what sort of fall out will come from this?

http://www.betanews.com/article/Firefox_Flaw_a_Hoax_Admits_Speaker/1159903320

Tom Walsh

ragan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6121608.html?part=rss&tag=6121608&subj=news
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> An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer's Mac OS X and Linux, they said.
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> The hackers claim they know of about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws. They don't plan to disclose them, instead holding on to the bugs.
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> "I do hope you guys change your minds and decide to report the holes to us and take away $500 per vulnerability instead of using them for botnets," Ruderman said.
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