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06-08-2006, 09:30 AM
http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188702202
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Multiple security organizations warned Tuesday that Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey -- on Windows, Linux, and the Mac -- are vulnerable to a JavaScript bug that could allow a determined attacker to dupe users into giving up sensitive personal information such as credit card or bank account numbers and passwords. ...
...The bug is unusual in that it affects not only Internet Explorer -- including fully-patched IE 6.0 and even IE 7 Beta 2 -- but also Firefox (though the most current version 1.5.0.4), the Mozilla suite, and the separately-developed successor to Mozilla, SeaMonkey. It's also out of the ordinary by virtue of its multi-platform impact: users of those browsers running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X are vulnerable, said Symantec. ...
...Symantec advised users to avoid unfamiliar Web neighborhoods and/or disable scripting or active content capabilities of the affected browsers.
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Multiple security organizations warned Tuesday that Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey -- on Windows, Linux, and the Mac -- are vulnerable to a JavaScript bug that could allow a determined attacker to dupe users into giving up sensitive personal information such as credit card or bank account numbers and passwords. ...
...The bug is unusual in that it affects not only Internet Explorer -- including fully-patched IE 6.0 and even IE 7 Beta 2 -- but also Firefox (though the most current version 1.5.0.4), the Mozilla suite, and the separately-developed successor to Mozilla, SeaMonkey. It's also out of the ordinary by virtue of its multi-platform impact: users of those browsers running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X are vulnerable, said Symantec. ...
...Symantec advised users to avoid unfamiliar Web neighborhoods and/or disable scripting or active content capabilities of the affected browsers.