Re:Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
by makomk on Sunday August 04, 2013 @06:59PM
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The exploit is targeted at the version of Firefox in the Tor Browser Bundle on Windows, which means most Tor users are vulnerable. While you can use a different browser the Tor developers have generally recommended that people don't; it's hard to lock down browsers against information leaks, and the fact that someone's using an unusual browser helps an attacker track them.
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Re:Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
by mbrubeck on Monday August 05, 2013 @10:44AM
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Actually it turns out to exploit an vulnerability that was already fixed in both Firefox and Firefox ESR:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/08/04/investigating-s...
The fix was included in a Tor Browser Bundle update on June 26, 2013:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-browser-bundles-and...