Security Update for Firefox: 2.0.0.5
The latest revision to Firefox 2 has been released (2.0.0.5). It fixes a handful of random announces but also does have a security update or two in there (one is a remote code execution). Firefox uses should upgrade when convenient. As a reminder, Firefox 1.5 is no longer supported (since May). If you haven't upgraded to Firefox 2, you should think about it.
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John Bambenek / bambenek [at] gmail {dot} com
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tragedy phishing scam
As many of you may be aware, yesterday happened a huge tragedy in Brazil, with an Airplane crash, that probably killed more than 200 persons. (Full story here)
As always, the miscreants will start to make their rounds, so we expect for the next hours, phishing scams with links to 'videos and photos' of the accident, which will lead to malicious software/webpages. So our advice is to pay attention and avoid this kind of emails.
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Handler: Pedro Bueno ( pbueno //&&// isc. sans. org )
Oracle Quarterly Critical Patch Update
Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update today. This quarterly update contains 45 new security fixes that range across many of their products. The ISC strongly recommends that these updates be applied in a timely manner as the risks posed by attackers compromising sensitive data contained in your database products.
For more information on the products and versions affected, please see the Oracle Critical Patch Update website.
New Version of FireFox
Earlier today, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 was released which has a number of bug fixes including a couple of privacy related bugs and a few security related ones.
Mozilla's Forum show many of the details of these fixes for those that would like to peruse until the release notes are updated. You can download the newest version from mozilla.com or through its automated update facility.
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