IPFlood (previously IPFuck) is a Firefox add-on created to simulate the use of a proxy. It doesn’t actually change your IP address (obviously) and it doesn’t connect to a proxy either, it just changes the headers (that it can) so it appears to any web servers or software sniffing – that you are in fact […]
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At Last – Adobe Launches Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox
Finally a proactive measure from Adobe to try and remedy the horrible security flaws they have introduced to Firefox with their Flash Player. There have been some massive hacks recently due to Flash – – Hackers Exploiting Latest Adobe Flash Bug On Large Scale – Adobe Patches Latest Flash Zero Day Vulnerability – Adobe Promises […]
Firesheep Download – Session Hijacking Tool For Windows
A huge wave has been made by this Firesheep in the mainstream media this week as it makes session hijacking a click and go procedure for Windows. It was released at Toorcon 12 and is simply a Firefox Add-on. What is Firesheep? Stealing sessions/passwords and so on is something we’ve been able to do for […]
Hackers Exploit Unpatched Firefox 0day Using Nobel Peace Prize Website
It’s been a while since Firefox has been in the news, but this is a fairly high profile case involving the Nobel Peace Prize website. It seems there is a race condition vulnerability in the latest versions of Firefox (including 3.6.11) that allows remote exploitation. In this case it was used via an iFrame on […]
Mozilla Increases Security Bug Bounty To $3000
There’s been a number of bounty programs in the past year or so with Mozilla being one of the forerunners with their Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program. There are others like Google offering rewards for bugs in Chrome, and other specific high profile bounties like when Microsoft Offered $250K Bounty for Conficker Author. Mozilla on […]