FireFox security test add-on was backdoored

Ted Roche tedroche at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 10:40:14 EDT 2010


Interesting account of how an add-on for FireFox claiming to be a
security test included a backdoor that captured usernames & passwords.
If you've recently download "Mozilla Sniffer" you'll want to pay
particular attention to this article:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/07/15/firefox-security-test-add-on-was-backdoored.html

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com


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