Two of the most popular Firefox extensions are at war, fighting for their own piece of land. More examples will follow.
Oh yes, the digital battlefield is taking unusual shapes. The latest manifestation of cyber warfare is a conflict between the Adblock Plus and the NoScript extensions. The story goes that NoScript used some JavaScript tactics and, of course, some obfuscations in order to cripple the Adblock Plus functionalities. [...]
You may have already heard of this, but there is a malware which goes around disguised as a Firefox extension. I have no details regarding the malicious code but to be honest, I am not surprised at all. In fact, I wonder why it took so long for the bad guys to figure that Firefox is an excellent malware delivery platform. Usually they are quicker.
A couple of months back, just before my BlackHat talk, I was planning to launch yet another of my experiments. [...]
Save all your passwords and session identifiers in the cloud with Mozilla’s Weave. What do you think about that?
Now this is not entirely unique feature to Mozilla only. We’ve seen the same trend with Microsoft’s Live Mesh and I suspect that Adobe and Yahoo are currently working on their own clones. These types of technologies totally change the rules of the game. [...]
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