Firefox goes on Patch-a-thon
Mozilla, the organization behind FireFox, the world’s most used web browser has again gained a couple or so updates or patches as they are referred to by industry experts to address several security flaws that have come out since the last patch-a-thon. Eleven flaws or security holes were addressed, of those, six were deemed to be critical due to possibility of remote code execution that can hijack computers the world over. All this in the never ending battle for control of the net that seems to develop holes as quickly as they’re patched by developers. These vulnerabilities are quite dangerous and can have code that loads it with more exploits or even give total control to unknown culprits.
Most browsers need constant updates to maintain their ability to browse the internet safely, protecting the users from exploits and security holes. Anti-virus and other security products can protect users from such attacks but best have the latest updates for your browser just to be sure. FireFox is set to go on a full update with the pending release of version 3.5 but that may have to wait, till all the bugs that surfaced with the beta-testing have all been addressed.