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Fail: Chrome, Firefox, and IE all crack during hacking competition
Washington Post ^ | 3/11/13 | Meghan Kelly

Posted on 03/11/2013 7:11:28 AM PDT by Nachum

Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox all fell to the mercy of the hackers Thursday. That is, in a controlled environment. Security firms Vupen and MWR Labs were able to crack the browsers during a condoned bug-hunt, with one company winning $100,000 for finding a huge hole. The Pwn2Own competition is an event at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The competition was created by HP’s DVLabs as part of its Zero Day Initiative: an attempt to get more people to find and report bugs as opposed to exploiting them for personal gains.

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KEYWORDS: browser; browsers; chrome; cybersecurity; fail; firefox; hacker; ie; miserablefailure; opera; trident
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To: George from New England

I just started FF and it’s up to v19.0, already, with updates and fixes.


21 posted on 03/11/2013 8:39:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s Are The 21st Century's Muskets. Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!)
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To: newzjunkey

Yes, and that’s because some of my CAD programs are windoze only.


22 posted on 03/11/2013 8:39:36 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: null and void

I got a “search here” virus on my Firefox browser.. had to stop using it. too bad, I really liked that browser. been using Chrome since then which is faster anyway. I plan on trying that Slimbrowser.. was never into the Opera browser.


23 posted on 03/11/2013 8:44:42 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Fresh Wind

Well it is worn out in a way. Its like a old house which hasn’t been maintained and nobody cares enough to secure it.

All the windows and doors are wide open and you have a sign welcoming people who want to steal from you.


24 posted on 03/11/2013 8:50:04 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: carriage_hill

Nothing is 100% secure, or even 90% secure.


25 posted on 03/11/2013 8:51:30 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Jack of all Trades
It’s best to read and understand the article before posting comments.

So, you don't feel that the entrants in the competition are the same ones who attack systems for fun and profit? What would keep that kind out?

I've long suspected that the companies which sell anti-virus and computer fixes hire people to create new problems so that they can sell the "fix". I'd love to be proven wrong.

26 posted on 03/11/2013 9:05:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: driftdiver

I find that to free up system memory I need to restart firefox once or twice a day. No Problem as long as firefox will reopen the same windows I had prior to shutdown, in the same taskbar order. 3.6.xx does that. All subsequent version do not. On restart, newer ff’s reverse the order of the windows in the taskbar.

If any freeper wants to try this on their ff version, just launch the Windows Task Manager and under the Process tab, select Firefox and right-click to End Process. When ff restarts it will have an oops msg, you select to Restore and see what the outcome is.


27 posted on 03/11/2013 9:12:54 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: driftdiver

True, that.


28 posted on 03/11/2013 9:16:21 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s Are The 21st Century's Muskets. Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!)
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To: newzjunkey

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712763

Loads saved windows in reverse order when starting, previous selected window ...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED (but its not)
Component: Session Restore

Target Milestone: Firefox 21 (someday I guess)


29 posted on 03/11/2013 9:17:47 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

“...will have an oops msg...”

No thanks; reminds me too much of the BSOD. Haven’t had one of those in I-can’t-remember-when, so I’ll pass on it.


30 posted on 03/11/2013 9:18:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s Are The 21st Century's Muskets. Free Men Need Not Ask Permission!)
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To: carriage_hill

Oops ...

Nothing more than the restart message from ff when there has been a crash. If I stop ff in Task Manager the restart thinks there was a crash. Fine, no issue here.

It’s just there is no fix from ff, see post 29.


31 posted on 03/11/2013 9:22:42 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

So you’d prefer to have gaping holes in the security of your desktop?


32 posted on 03/11/2013 9:24:32 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Chuzzlewit

“I got a “search here” virus on my Firefox browser.. had to stop using it. “

The ‘cure’ for that problem is to ‘reset’ Firefox.

Go to ‘Help’ > ‘Trouble Shooting Information’ > ‘Reset Firefox’ (on the top right). Click it.

Firefox will reset to ‘default’ without losing your Bookmarks or saved passwords.

It will then create and ‘old Firefox’ folder on the desktop that you can either keep as a ‘backup’ or delete.

I deleted mine. (After all, that’s where the problem was in the first place)


33 posted on 03/11/2013 9:25:11 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: George from New England

Why don’t you use a virtualized version with the updated browser, specifically to access your bank, then just leave the version you want on your computer.


34 posted on 03/11/2013 9:28:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: George from New England

Da-YAM!!! that just sped up everything about a zillion times!!!


35 posted on 03/11/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: null and void

While we are here, how do I stop the auo-recall or auto-insert function in FF. It remembers account info.


36 posted on 03/11/2013 11:31:21 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: null and void

You do realize OSX was the first broken OS for 3 straight years. Being on OSX doesn’t make you safe online.


37 posted on 03/11/2013 11:32:42 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

As long as the leftists are in power, I will never be safe on line.


38 posted on 03/11/2013 11:36:18 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: SgtHooper

Preferences—>Security—>Passwords


39 posted on 03/11/2013 12:04:24 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Dan(9698)

This is the first I’ve heard of Slimbrowser. How does it compare to Firefox or IE9?


40 posted on 03/11/2013 2:55:31 PM PDT by ducttape45
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