ZDNet Australia: Thunderbird Gets Security, Yahoo Boost | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: Thunderbird Gets Security, Yahoo Boost

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2005

“The Mozilla Foundation’s Thunderbird e-mail client has been
updated with a number of security patches, and is now supported by
Yahoo’s desktop search product.

“Although the foundation’s security page doesn’t yet list
exactly which bugs were fixed, Mozilla’s director of engineering
Chris Hofman said earlier this week the e-mail client was
vulnerable to the same security bugs as were fixed yesterday in
Firefox 1.0.5…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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