Security Breach at Mozilla.Org
A database of addons.mozilla.org user accounts was available to public. Chris Lyon, the director of infrastructure security at Mozilla has disclosed a security breach that revealed the...
View ArticleNew Chrome and New Thunderbird – Multiple Vulnerabilities Fixed (Updated)
Google has released Chrome 9.0.597.107 for all platforms with a total of 19 security fixes which cost Google $14,000 under its Chromium Security Rewards program. To date Google has given away over...
View ArticleHonest Achmed’s Used Cars and Certificates Wants To Become a Trusted...
On the lighter side of things, a request to add Honest Achmed’s root certificate to Mozilla has been rejected. A humorous request was made to Mozilla to add “Honest Achmed’s Used Cars and Certificates”...
View ArticleMozilla Updates Firefox 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0
Mozilla has released a series of security updates for all currently supported versions of Firefox. Firefox 4.0.1, 3.6.17 and 3.5.19 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mozilla is...
View ArticleMozilla Releases Firefox 6, Patches Critical Vulnerabilities
(LiveHacking.Com) - Mozilla has shipped a new version of its Firefox web browser with increased support for HTML5, faster startup times and improved per-site permission management. But most importantly...
View ArticleOnce Bitten, Twice Shy – Mozilla Tell CAs to Audit Their Systems
(LiveHacking.Com) - Mozilla has sent a message to all the certificate authorities which participate in the Mozilla root certificate program. It has requested that all participating CA’s complete and...
View ArticleFirefox 7 Fixes Security Related Bugs While Reducing Memory Footprint
(LiveHacking.Com) - Mozilla has fixed half a dozen critical security flaws in its popular web browser with the release of Firefox 7. The patches fix buffer overruns, potentially exploitable crashes...
View ArticleCache Timings Allow Browser History Extraction
(LiveHacking.Com) - Security Researcher and author of the book “The Tangled Web” Michal Zalewski has created a proof of concept web page which can extract browser history (without relying on browser...
View ArticleMozilla Fixes Critical Vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird
(LiveHacking.Com) – Mozilla has released new versions of Firefox and Thunderbird to fix a “use after free” crash which is potentially exploitable. According to the security advisory Mozilla developers...
View ArticleMozilla Releases Another New Version of Firefox to Fix Yet Another Critical...
(LiveHacking.Com) – Less then 7 days after the release of Firefox 10.0.1, Mozilla has now released a new version of Firefox (10.0.2) and Thunderbird (also 10.0.2) to fix a Critical libpng integer...
View ArticleMozilla Sends Another Message to Certificate Authorities
(LiveHacking.Com) – Mozilla has sent an email to all certificate authorities in the Mozilla root program to reiterate that the issuance of subordinate CA certificates for the purposes of SSL...
View ArticleMozilla Fixes Critical Security Vulnerabilities and Adds Silent Updating to...
(LiveHacking.Com) – The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of its popular web browser. Firefox 12 brings some new features including silent updates and fixes several critical security...
View ArticleMozilla 13 Fixes Critical Security Vulnerabilities and Improves New Tab Page
(LiveHacking.Com) – The Mozilla foundation has released Mozilla 13 with some new features including redesigned Home and New Tab pages, the use of the SPDY by default and a series of performance...
View ArticleMozilla fixes 5 critical security vulnerabilities in FireFox
(LiveHacking.Com) – Mozilla has released Firefox 14 and in doing so it has patched five critical security vulnerabilities and added support for HTTPS when searching Google. The first critical bug fixed...
View ArticleMozilla releases Firefox 16.0.0, then withdraws it, then releases 16.0.1
(LiveHacking.Com) – Mozilla recently released the latest version of its Firefox web browser with initial web app support plus some changes to the incremental garbage collection which will boost the...
View ArticleAnother day, another Firefox release
Mozilla released version 16 of its popular web browser only a few weeks ago and since then it has had two point releases to fix security issues. The latest release, 16.0.2 adds fixes for problems with...
View ArticleFirefox 17 fixes 19 Critical security vulnerabilities and drops support for...
(LiveHacking.Com) – Mozilla has released Firefox 17 and in the processes it has closed 19 Critical security vulnerabilities, fixed 2365 bugs and addressed 10 other sets of High or Moderate security...
View ArticleIn Brief: Microsoft, Google and Mozilla all block digital certificate issued...
(LiveHacking.Com) – Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have all removed the trust of certificates issued by an intermediate certificate authority (CA) linking back to TURKTRUST Inc. What has happened is...
View ArticleTor users exposed due to vulnerability in Firefox 17
Users of the popular Tor anonymity tool have been exposed to malware which can reveal the user’s IP address. According to an announcement made a Tor mailing list, the Tor Browser Bundle is susceptible...
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