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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Fix for Active Zero Day Attack Available for Firefox and Tor Browsers

December 1, 2016

A post on ars technica announces an update available for Firefox and Tor browsers. The zero-day vulnerability is being used to execute malicious code on the computers of people using Tor and Firefox. It appears that the attacks are primarily aimed at Tor users, but since the Tor browser is based on the open source Firefox browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, attacks on Firefox are also possible. The vulnerability has been fixed in version 50.0.2 for Firefox users. The update to version 6.0.7 of the Tor browser fixes the problem. The message here is to update the browsers for Firefox and Tor now.

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