As Mozilla went after a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period with its release of Firefox 3, it didn't take security researchers long to drop a bomb on all the browsing fun. TippingPoint's DVLabs reported that its Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. Are 8 million newly minted Firefox 3 surfers taking to the Web with a broken browser? Broken, of course, is just a fancy alliteration. In reality, DVLabs and Mozilla are both keeping the details under wraps.
June 19th 2008