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2008

A McAfee spokeswoman said the company rates XSS vulnerabilities less severe than SQL injections and other types of security bugs. "Currently, the presence of an XSS vulnerability does not cause a web site to fail HackerSafe certification," she said. "When McAfee identifies XSS, it notifies its customers and educates them about XSS vulnerabilities."

Dan Goodin

# 17th May 2008, 11:31 pm / mcafee, idiotic, security

2007

Why FireFox is Blocked. Idiotic campaign by site owners who don’t like AdBlock Plus. If you block Firefox we won’t link to your site, so you’ll miss out on PageRank, so you’ll miss out on traffic, so you’ll miss out on money.

# 16th August 2007, 11:30 pm / firefox, idiotic, adblockplus