Sunday, 16 February 2014

Virus threat hits popular browsers - Indian Express

Summary

Internet users have been asked to upgrade their personal versions of these two most used web browsers on their work stations.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been detected in popular web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and cyber security sleuths have advised Internet users in the Indian cyberspace to guard against arbitrary activities on their systems.

In view of these suspicious virus-based activities, Internet users have been asked to upgrade their personal versions of these two most used web browsers on their work stations.

"Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey which could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose potentially sensitive information, gain escalated privileges, execute arbitrary code and causes denial of service condition on the affected system," the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-IN) said in its latest advisory to online users in the country.

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