Tag: Mozilla

January 30, 2019

Mozilla has unveiled new anti-tracking policies and redesigned privacy controls in tandem with the release of Firefox 65 on Tuesday. The company announced a new set of redesigned controls for the Content Blocking section, where users can choose their desired […]

March 26, 2018

The Mozilla Foundation is testing a new mechanism for securing domain name server traffic that uses the encrypted HTTPS channel. It is an attempt to speed up the internet, reduce the threat of man-in-the-middle attacks and keep prying eyes from […]

January 31, 2018

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser (aka Firefox Quantum) […]

January 2, 2018

Mozilla published an unexpected security patch this week, bumping Firefox up to version 57.0.3. (You probably weren’t expecting a browser update between Christmas and New Year, but it’s good to know that security fixes don’t take second place in holiday season.) […]

December 27, 2017

Mozilla issued a critical security update to its popular open-source Thunderbird email client. The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low. Mozilla said Thunderbird, […]

June 15, 2017

Mozilla fixed 32 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug that could have resulted in a crash, with the release Tuesday of Firefox 54, the latest version of its flagship browser. The critical bug, a use-after-free vulnerability, was dug up by longtime […]

January 26, 2017

Mozilla has released Firefox 51 on Tuesday, and this latest stable version of the popular browser comes with many security fixes and improvements. The list of security vulnerabilities fixed is considerable – five critical, six high, ten moderate and three […]

December 30, 2016

Support for Windows XP and Vista will be removed from Firefox, currently the last major web browser out there to still support the two outdated operating system versions. In a blog post just before Christmas, Mozilla announced plans to automatically […]

November 17, 2016

Mozilla addressed 29 vulnerabilities, three rated critical, when it released the latest iteration of its flagship browser, Firefox 50 and Firefox ESR 45.5, on Tuesday. Firefox developers said this week that it might take some effort, but at least two […]

October 3, 2016

To protect users from cryptographic attacks that can compromise secure web connections, the popular Firefox browser will block access to HTTPS servers that use weak Diffie-Hellman keys. Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol that is slowly replacing the widely used […]

August 3, 2016

Mozilla on Monday announced that download protection in Firefox 48 has been expanded to include potentially unwanted software and uncommon downloads. Mozilla introduced download protection two years ago in Firefox 31 on Windows, then added it to Mac and Linux releases […]

May 13, 2016

Mozilla is pressing the government to disclose a possible security vulnerability in its Firefox web browser that helped the FBI track down visitors to a child pornography site. The vulnerability is at the center of a case in the Western […]

February 16, 2016

Mozilla released updates for the standard and ESR versions of Firefox last week to address vulnerabilities classified as having “critical” impact. Earlier this month, researchers at Cisco’s Talos team reported finding several vulnerabilities in the Libgraphite library, used for font […]

September 28, 2015

Hot on the heels of #firefox 41 – which saw the end of a 14-year-old #bug that sucked up memory for #adblock plus users – #mozilla announced a new beta of the popular web browser. Firefox 42 beta for Windows, […]

September 6, 2015

#mozilla said an unknown #attacker accessed its #bugzilla bug-and-change tracking database, stole information about 53 critical security #vulnerabilities, and used at least one of those flaws to attack #firefox #users. Bugzilla is the open-source #tracker that Mozilla’s developers — both […]

August 19, 2015

Mozilla announced last Friday that it’s released new privacy enhancements in its popular Firefox browser for pre-beta testing. The “experimental” features – enabled by default in the Firefox developer edition – include Tracking Protection to actively block website elements that […]

September 3, 2014

Mozilla has added a defense in its latest version of Firefox that would help prevent hackers from intercepting data intended for major online services.

September 3, 2014

Mozilla has released Firefox 32 for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. In addition to some new features, the latest version of the Web browser also includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities and support for public key pinning.

August 29, 2014

Mozilla is warning users who have contributed to testing builds of the online bug-tracking tool Bugzilla that their email addresses and encrypted passwords were publicly available for a period of three months.