Re: FireFox security test add-on was backdoored

2010-07-16 Thread Seth Cohn
Thanks for the headsup. I'm giving a talk next weekend in NYC about Firefox addons (non technical, more of an overview of the way they are changing the net into Web 3.0 slowly but surely). It's been a good talk (I've given it a few times so far, it's on video from when I gave in Montreal last yea

FireFox security test add-on was backdoored

2010-07-16 Thread Ted Roche
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-secur