Tag: Mozilla

December 21, 2023

Mozilla last week revised its position on a web security technology called Trusted Types, which it has decided to implement in its Firefox browser. By so doing, the browser biz will help reduce a longstanding form of web attack that […]

October 4, 2023

Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported last week that a website where the Snatch ransomware group names victims had been leaking data, including visitor IPs and information on internal operations. According to Krebs, the leaked data suggests that the Snatch cybercrime […]

July 10, 2023

Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. “We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run […]

March 7, 2022

Mozilla has released an out-of-band security update for Firefox, Firefox Focus, and Thunderbird, fixing two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486) exploited by attackers in the wild. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486) The two patched zero-days are both memory corruption bugs of […]

October 6, 2021

Starting with Firefox 93, the browser blocks insecure HTTP downloads on encrypted (HTTPS) pages, to keep users safe from potentially unwanted or even malicious downloads. Given that data transmitted over HTTP isn’t protected, attackers able to intercept that data could […]

September 22, 2021

In a recent Mozilla review of the privacy features of 21 popular video call apps, only two were singled out for outstanding features (Signal and Threema). Meanwhile, three products were slapped with a dreaded “*Privacy Not Included” warning label (Facebook […]

February 9, 2021

In its advisory for the vulnerability — the bug currently does not have a CVE identifier — Mozilla described it as a “buffer overflow in depth pitch calculations for compressed textures.” The issue, reported by researchers Abraruddin Khan and Omair […]

November 11, 2020

The Firefox vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-26950, has been described as an issue related to write side effects in MCallGetProperty opcode not being accounted for. “In certain circumstances, the MCallGetProperty opcode can be emitted with unmet assumptions resulting in an exploitable […]

September 21, 2020

Firefox Send, the browser maker reveals, is being discontinued because it has been abused for delivering malware and phishing attacks. The feature was designed for encrypted file sharing and became popular among a loyal set of users, Mozilla says. However, […]

April 28, 2020

With the current COVID-19 pandemic forcing many to work from home, organizations have adopted video calling as a means to keep teams connected and ensure collaboration and efficiency. Almost immediately, these applications started facing scrutiny, as both individual users and […]

April 24, 2020

Mozilla announced some major changes to its bug bounty program that was first launched in 2004. The organization paid out $965,750 for roughly 350 vulnerabilities, the average payout for each issue was approximately $2,700. Now Mozilla has increased the maximum […]

January 27, 2020

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. The malicious Firefox add-ons were found stealing user data and for this reason, they were removed from the Mozilla Add-on (AMO) […]

January 9, 2020

Mozilla has patched a Firefox zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-17026) that is being exploited in attacks in the wild and is urging Firefox and Firefox ESR users to update their installations as soon as possible. About CVE-2019-17026 A day after Mozilla released […]

October 23, 2019

Mozilla has released Firefox 70.0, which delivers performance and power consumption improvements, helpful browser features, new options for developers and, most prominently, new security and privacy protections. Privacy protections In January 2019, Mozilla published its official anti-tracking policy, which singled […]

September 6, 2019

Mozilla this week released Firefox 69 in the stable channel with patches for 20 vulnerabilities, including one code execution bug rated Critical severity. The issue resides in the fact that, when Firefox is launched by another program, logging-related command line […]

September 4, 2019

It took a lot of testing and tweaking, but Mozilla’s Firefox browser is finally being delivered with Enhanced Tracking Protection and a web-based cryptomining blocking feature on by default. The changes “Enhanced Tracking Protection works behind-the-scenes to keep a company […]

June 19, 2019

A critical Firefox zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is being abused in targeted attacks in the wild, Mozilla has warned on Tuesday. About the vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) Mozilla did not share many details about the flaw – it simply stated that […]

June 11, 2019

Mozilla Corporation is launching a premium version of the Firefox browser that will tout improved security features such as virtual private network and secure cloud storage, according to CEO Chris Beard. In a Friday interview with German media publication T3N, […]

June 6, 2019

Browsers Firefox and Chrome received updates this week, both adding security and privacy tools that help with password management and help block sites that track users. Mozilla’s Firefox browser introduced an “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature that blocks over 1,000 third-party […]

May 7, 2019

Thanks to Mozilla letting an intermediate signing certificate expire, the Tor community was thrown into disarray over the weekend when the NoScript security add-on was suddenly killed for both Firefox and the Tor browser. A fix is available for Firefox, […]