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Firefox Gives Away Passwords for Free

Chapin Information Services (CIS) have discovered quite a major flaw in the way Firefox's Password Manager automatically populates username and password fields on a web form.Whilst this is a major time saver, it does however allow phishers to gather usernames and passwords without you actually knowing it, especially on weblogs and forums which allow posters to input HTML. Essentially, they would just create a hidden form that Firefox would automatically populate with your username and password for that site and then submit it to the phisher's server when you click a link or hit enter. This doesn't use cross site scripting (XSS) methods either as it's essentially gathering passwords for the site you're actually visiting (hence most phishing detectors won't pick this up).  Continue reading ►

Improve Thunderbird Filters

I use Thunderbird for all my mail needs (except Gmail as it doesn't do IMAP) and there are several capabilities within it's filtering that I wish it had: Regular expression (regex) matching (Bug #: 19442) The ability to pipe a message to a shell command (to determine if email matches) The ability to run a shell command (as an action for matching emails) The ability to change subject of matched emails I cope without these, but having these would save so much time and make my life, particularily at work, so much easier.  Continue reading ►

Cooliris Plugin

I stumbled upon this really cool plugin for Firefox (and Safari and IE) - Cooliris. Once installed, the plugin allows you to quickly preview the underlying content of links without actually clicking. Just hover your mouse pointer over a link and see the content immediately (well as immediately as your link will allow the page to be downloaded).
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