arstechnica.com — A recent press release from web security provider Finjan Inc. has exposed a security flaw with Google's antiphishing browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Apparently, the extension accidentally gathered some users' e-mail addresses and passwords.
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jrbrewinJan 23, 2007
glad i'm using IE. :->crweaks23 - if you believe all firefox users are geeks, you're more stupid that you first appeared. most firefox users use it because their friend told them to after they got malware dropped on their pc through IE, not because they like to download and compile the latest firefox code themselves.
sirberJan 23, 2007
none, simple URL from badly-written websites.
vdxcJan 23, 2007
Exactly, it's been made out that it was Google's fault when it's actually poorly coded websites.
shindaJan 23, 2007
Your intellect is starting to rival that of the average Microsoft user. It wasn't Google who screwed up. The sites they cached contained the user/password info of users of THAT site. Google simply collected it, the other site, sites that defraud users, were revealing it, NOT GOOGLE. This security 'leak' doesn't even really affect Google, but rather those sites that Google picked up on. We should instead be praising Google for removing the user id and pass that the site is publicly broadcasting from its saved criteria..
shindaJan 23, 2007
Then again they didn't do anything wrong now did they?
Closed AccountFeb 1, 2007
Lol, the anti-phishing plugin turned into the allow-phishing plugin! That is just plain hilarious.