IDG Contributor Network: Firefox zero-day hole found, exploited: Update now

A new security hole is exposed in Firefox browser, which they have already patched and for which they have released an update. The organization wrote in a blog post,  “Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine. This morning Mozilla released security updates that fix the vulnerability. All Firefox users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3. The fix has also been shipped in Firefox ESR 38.1.1.”

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