KingFish
28 Jul 2004, 4:40pm
Web surfers eyeing Mozilla-based browsers as a safer alternative might want to wait a week before making the switch.
That's because the Mozilla Foundation, an open-source browser development group in Mountain View, Calif., has acknowledged a pair of serious flaws in the way its browsers handle certificates, the digital documents that let you verify a Web site's identity. Mozilla said its engineers were caught off-guard by the vulnerabilities, as the code in question dates back from the open-source browser's proprietary progenitor, Netscape.
Source: ZDNet (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5286138.html)
That's because the Mozilla Foundation, an open-source browser development group in Mountain View, Calif., has acknowledged a pair of serious flaws in the way its browsers handle certificates, the digital documents that let you verify a Web site's identity. Mozilla said its engineers were caught off-guard by the vulnerabilities, as the code in question dates back from the open-source browser's proprietary progenitor, Netscape.
Source: ZDNet (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5286138.html)