The Dangers of Firefox Extensions

At the SecurityByte & OWASP AppSec Conference in India, Roberto Suggi Liverani and Nick Freeman offered insight into the substantial danger posed by Firefox extensions. Mozilla doesn't have a security model for extensions and Firefox fully trusts the code of the extensions. There are no security boundaries between extensions and, to make things even worse, an extension can silently modify another extension. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]

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