The Security Mentor

Security firm Secunia reported a couple of bugs in Firefox yesterday. The bugs are much less serious than the recent Internet Explorer bug. One bug could let an attacker with a malicious web page read local files on your machine. Another might allow tricking you into thinking a downloaded file is some safe kind when it really isn't.

The good news is that they're already fixed. The official release version of Firefox includes the fixes. By all means upgrade. The easy way is to go to the Tools menu in Firefox, click Options, click the Advanced icon, look for the Software Update section on the right, and click the Check Now button.

Interestingly, I'm not hearing these kinds of bug reports about the Opera web browser. Either it's more secure or fewer people are paying attention to it.