[ale] Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped throughsecurity

[Lightner, Jeff]

What's really disturbing is at the end of the article where they say
another malware previously got through and responded:

'After the worm snafu, Snyder said Mozilla would boost the number of
times it scanned files for malware, and would also up the frequency of
scans of its entire add-on catalog "to address this sort of case in the
future."'

Are they really doing frequency based scanning rather than scanning when
the files are uploaded?!

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Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9152578/Mozilla_confirms_infected
_Firefox_add_ons_slipped_through_security

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ykllxqg

keith

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