{"id":61862,"date":"2012-10-11T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61862"},"modified":"2012-10-11T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:16:03","slug":"firefox-16-pulled-for-security-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/61862-firefox-16-pulled-for-security-concern.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 16 pulled for security concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> 16 has only been out for a short time, but the latest version of <a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a>&#8216;s web browser has been pulled down due to a security vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters,&#8221; Mozilla&#8217;s director of security assurance, Michael Coates wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time we have no indication that this vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla recommended that users currently using Firefox 16 should downgrade to 15.0.1.<\/p>\n<p>A fixed version of the browser is expected to be available shortly.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\" https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2012\/10\/10\/security-vulnerability-in-firefox-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Blog<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58053-chrome-extensions-to-boost-your-browser.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chrome extensions to boost your browser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Browser Wars: Stats for September 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61524-browser-wars-stats-for-september-2012.html\">Browser Wars: Stats for September 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Firefox grows as Chrome slips\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/61214-firefox-grows-as-chrome-slips.html\">Firefox grows as Chrome slips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Mozilla Persona enters public beta\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/60926-mozilla-persona-enters-public-beta.html\">Mozilla Persona enters public beta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla pulls newest browser version to fix security flaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":59103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[981,14951,16092,975,7979],"class_list":["post-61862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-16","tag-firefox-security","tag-mozilla","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61888,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61862\/revisions\/61888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}