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• Mozilla confirms critical Firefox bug

  Mozilla yesterday confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month.

• Microsoft warns of new IE bug; attacks under way

  Microsoft today warned of a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is already being exploited by hackers, the second such admission in the last two months.

• Attacks appear imminent as IE exploit is improved

  Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, making it more reliable -- and more likely to be used by criminals.

• New attack fells Internet Explorer

  A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

• Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace

  Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.

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