Alert: Firefox Security Warning

PC World is reporting on a new vulnerability in Mozilla‘s Firefox browser.

Mozilla’s Director of Security Engineering is referring to this as a “critical” issue. A fix is scheduled for release along with a version update at the start of next week.

The attack code, written by security researcher Guido Landi was published on several security sites Wednesday, sending Firefox developers scrambling to patch the issue. Until the flaw is patched, this code could be modified by attackers and used to sneak unauthorized software onto a Firefox user’s machine.

Developers are referring to the fix and to the release of the update a “high priority firedrill security update”. That sounds encouraging.

The article continues:

While the public release of browser attack code doesn’t happen all that often, security researchers don’t seem to have much trouble finding bugs in browser software. Last week, two hackers at the CanSecWest security conference dug up four separate bugs in the Firefox, IE and Safari browsers.

Be safe and look for the update next week. In the meantime, we highly recommend Kaspersky Antivirus to keep your system safe. It’s the best product on the market, IMHO.