Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:16:58 +0000
In the game of cricket, 111 is an unauspicious number, but for Firefox, there doesn’t seem to be much to worry about this month.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:51:21 +0000
What’s so bad about a web page going fullscreen without warning you first?
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“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.
Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.
Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: CVE-2022-40959 Tags: CVE-2022-40960 Tags: CVE-2022-40962 Tags: CVE-2022-3033 Tags: Mozilla Tags: Firefox Tags: Thunderbird Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird which could be exploited to take control of a system. |
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:27:08 +0000
Two trust-spoofing bugs were the main culprits this month – but neither one was a zero-day.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:41:02 +0000
You’re probably thinking we’re going to say, “Don’t delay/Do it today”… and that’s exactly what we are saying!
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:41:02 +0000
You’re probably thinking we’re going to say, “Don’t delay/Do it today”… and that’s exactly what we are saying!
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:35:37 +0000
Facebook is reportedly switching out click identifiers for encryption, making it harder (if not impossible) to strip tracking from the URL.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:01:41 +0000
Mozilla has released Firefox updates to the Release Channel that fix several security vulnerabilities and introduce a new privacy feature called Query Parameter Stripping.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:11:55 +0000
Firefox squashes a bug that helped phishers, and brings its own helping hand to Microsoft’s “Follina” saga.
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