{"id":13311,"date":"2005-07-20T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/greasemonkey-security-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T12:14:00","slug":"greasemonkey-security-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/greasemonkey-security-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasemonkey Security Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=8178&amp;t=70\" title=\"Get Firefox!\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Get Firefox\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/firefox_get.gif\" \/><\/a>For those of you that read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2005\/06\/greasemonkey.html\" target=\"_blank\">post about the Greasemonkey Firefox extension<\/a> and installed it, you should definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/greasemonkey.mozdev.org\" target=\"_blank\">upgrade to the latest version<\/a> immediately, as there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/simon.incutio.com\/archive\/2005\/07\/20\/vulnerability\" target=\"_blank\">security vulnerability<\/a> that could potentially expose your computer to someone utilizing code that exploits the flaw.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been finding a lot of interesting and helpful uses for Greasemonkey, and I will probably be making a separate post about those soon, as well as a possible updated list of favorite Firefox extensions.<\/p>\n<p>While I&rsquo;m at it, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=8178&amp;t=70\" title=\"Get Firefox!\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderbird<\/a> have recently released 1.0.6 versions to address security and stability issues, although those should have shown up as automatic update icons in your browser screen by now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <i>MozillaZine<\/i> has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillazine.org\/talkback.html?article=6982\" target=\"_blank\">summary of the issues surrounding the Greasemonkey extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/firefox\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">firefox<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/greasemonkey\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">greasemonkey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/software\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112186169337476152?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that read my post about the Greasemonkey Firefox extension and installed it, you should definitely upgrade to the latest version immediately, as there is a security vulnerability that could potentially expose your computer to someone utilizing code that exploits the flaw. I&rsquo;ve been finding a lot of interesting and helpful uses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/greasemonkey-security-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greasemonkey Security Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}