Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Two hackers have detailed a serious security flaw in the Firefox web browser that would enable attackers to gain control of any computer running the Internet Explorer rival regardless the underlying operating system.
According to Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew
Wbeelsoi, who gave a detailed presentation at the ToorCon hacker
conference in San Diego on Saturday, the vulnerability is not able to
be patched unless Mozilla rewrites key sections of its JavaScript code.
The two hackers gave a detailed presentation on stage showing a slide
with key information on how to exploit the vulnerability. They said
that a hacker could gain control of a computer which visits a web page
containing malicious JavaScript code.
Mozilla is taking the presentation seriously and is reportedly annoyed
at the way the hackers disclosed the exploit in enough detail for a
hacker to repoduce it.
What was even more disturbing to Mozilla is that Spiegelmock and
Wbeelsoi claim to have knowledge of about 30 Firefox vulnerabilities
and have no intention of responsibly disclosing them to Mozilla.
It seems that the US$500 a flaw bounty that Mozilla is willing to pay
hackers who find genuine vulnerabilities was not enough incentive to
dissuade the two hackers from contributing to the sort of environment
that forces internet users to be wary of what sites they visit.
David Bass
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