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Mozilla site attacked to spread spam
Monday, 18 July 2005, 11:36 AM EST
A site promoting Firefox was attacked last weekend in order to commandeer it to send spam, the Mozilla Foundation said on Friday. The attack was limited to community marketing site SpreadFirefox.com. In a statement, the Mozilla Foundation said the unspecified security vulnerabilities were exploited to mount the attack.
By John Leyden at The Register.
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