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Thunderbird security update

Last week, Mozilla posted a security advisory about Thunderbird 1.5 and released a patched version. I read about the vulnerability yesterday at SecurityTracker.com and dutifully went to mozilla.org to download the update. To my surprise, Mozilla has not yet updated the download link on their website. I can't figure out why they would publish an […]

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Gmail vulnerability explained

I learned about a Gmail vulnerability today from the Web Security Mailing List. The exploit is surprisingly simple, but the result (complete access to any account) is huge. This was patched by Google in October. (Remember when the login screen changed?) It's worth a read.

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If you haven't already, consider subscribing to SecurityTracker.com's free weekly security briefing and stay on top of security vulnerabilities involving your favourite apps.

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