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Firefox patches two in-the-wild exploits – update now!

March 5, 2022 0 Comments Exploit, firefox, Mozilla, o-day, vulnerability, zero day

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:06:09 +0000

Firefox just published a double-zero-day patch – “remote code execution” combined with “sandbox escape”. Update now!

Update now! Firefox and Adobe updates are more critical than Microsoft’s

February 9, 2022 0 Comments cve-2022-21984, cve-2022-21989, cve-2022-21996, cve-2022-22005, cve-2022-22752, cve-2022-23186, cve-2022-23188, cve-2022-23200, cve-2022-23202, cve-2022-23203, cve-2202-22754, Exploits and vulnerabilities, firefox, Mozilla, Patch Tuesday

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:10:20 +0000

Patch Tuesday for February 2022 comes with some critical updates from Firefox and Adobe, while Microsoft keeps it cool after the January hustle.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: cve-2022-21984 cve-2022-21989 cve-2022-21996 cve-2022-22005 cve-2022-22752 cve-2022-23186 cve-2022-23188 cve-2022-23200 cve-2022-23202 cve-2022-23203 cve-2202-22754 firefox mozilla patch tuesday

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Let’s Encrypt issues one billionth free certificate

March 2, 2020 0 Comments acme, automated certificate management environment, Cisco, Cryptography, digital certificates, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, facebook, Google, http, https, ietf, internet engineering task force, internet security research group, internet society, isrg, lets encrypt, Mozilla, ovh

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:06:25 +0000

Thanks to this flood of free certificates, the web is a lot more encrypted than it was a few years ago.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/m_p5aVh50cI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US

February 28, 2020 0 Comments chrome, Cloudflare DNS, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, https, Mozilla, mozilla firefox, Privacy, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:31:00 +0000

Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/U2NXSe69Ao0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Brave beats other browsers in privacy study

February 27, 2020 0 Comments Apple, Apple Safari, Brave, browser privacy, chrome, Edge, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, Privacy, Safari, Web Browsers, Yandex

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:32:13 +0000

Users looking for a privacy-focused browser might want to consider Brave first, according to a study published this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nYYmchFylNA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles

February 20, 2020 0 Comments 0patch, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Mozilla, nextdns, security threats, vulnerability, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:20:44 +0000

Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to v73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/caf79LMUoQo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox six-weekly security fixes are out – get them now!

February 13, 2020 0 Comments Exploit, firefox, fortytwosday, Mozilla, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:16:11 +0000

No zero-day bugs, so by updating promptly you are keeping ahead of the crooks, not merely catching up!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/–nLqi3_4XY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla issues final warning to websites using TLS 1.0

February 12, 2020 0 Comments Apple, chrome, Edge, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, netscape, Safari, ssl/tls, TLS, tls 1.0, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:13:57 +0000

From March, the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge browsers will show warnings when users visit websites that only support TLS versions 1.0 or 1.1.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3oMQ9dp5jKA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla bans Firefox extensions for executing remote code

January 28, 2020 0 Comments Apple Safari, browser extensions, chrome, Edge, firefox, Google Chrome, malicious extensions, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, mozilla firefox, Safari, security threats, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:38:31 +0000

Mozilla’s policy is unambiguous – add-ons must be self-contained and not load remote code, which opens up the user to all sorts of risks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NvbQrtROsLI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers

December 18, 2019 0 Comments CloudFlare, Cloudflare DNS, dns over tls, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Mozilla, mozilla firefox, nextdns, pihole, Privacy, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:07:38 +0000

Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jIAyGMDzDjE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>