Daily Report Thursday, November 9, 2006
Daily HighlightsThe Social Security Administration on Tuesday, November 7, warned of a new e−mail scam in which recipients are asked to update their personal information or risk having their Social Security "account" suspended indefinitely by November 11. (See item 12)
The Associated Press reports biologists at Mississippi State University are studying safer vaccines for whooping cough, which can sometimes lead to brain damage or death. (See item 24)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector30. November 08, Security Focus — Mozilla multiple products remote vulnerabilities. The Mozilla Foundation has released thirteen security advisories specifying vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the vulnerable application; crash affected applications; run arbitrary script code with elevated privileges; gain access to potentially sensitive information; and carry out cross−domain scripting attacks. Other attacks may also be possible. These issues are fixed in: − Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.0.5, Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5, and Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.0.3. Solution: