Serious Flaw in Firefox and Chrome Browsers!
I thought I'd pass along this potential vulnerability in Firefox and Chrome browsers which is receiving increased attention in online security communities. It involves Unicode phishing vulnerability,...
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Anytime you click a hyperlink you become vulnerable to phising or whatever malware that are lurking out there.
Call me paranoid.
That's the reason I don't blindfoldedly click on "clickys" that most posters show on their posts. Although offering clicky is well intended, hackers use this as a gate way to wreak havoc on users.
Granted, new patches do offer some protection, their efficacy is short live--that they have to come up with patches all the time.
I've been using Firefox for the most time since its
inception.
Linux does "housekeeping" regularly which to some degree keeps your OS "clean" by switching to new version.
You do have to tell it to do the upgrade.
Now, that would be another avenue to hack your PC. LOL
Hackers are getting smarter, and hotshot programmers are busy fighting them off to no avail.
Call me paranoid.
That's the reason I don't blindfoldedly click on "clickys" that most posters show on their posts. Although offering clicky is well intended, hackers use this as a gate way to wreak havoc on users.
Granted, new patches do offer some protection, their efficacy is short live--that they have to come up with patches all the time.
I've been using Firefox for the most time since its
inception.
Linux does "housekeeping" regularly which to some degree keeps your OS "clean" by switching to new version.
You do have to tell it to do the upgrade.
Now, that would be another avenue to hack your PC. LOL
Hackers are getting smarter, and hotshot programmers are busy fighting them off to no avail.
