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Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2020

Hijacking nearby Firefox mobile browsers via WiFi by exploiting a bug

Mozilla addressed a bug that can be exploited by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers that share the same WiFi network. Mozilla has addressed a vulnerability that can be abused by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers on the same WiFi network and force them to visit malicious sites, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2020

Mozilla offers rewards for Bypassing Firefox Exploit Mitigations

Mozilla has expanded its bug bounty program including rewards for bypass methods for the exploit mitigations and security features in Firefox. Mozilla announced this week that it has expanded its bug bounty program with a new category that focuses on bypass methods for the exploit mitigations, security features, and defense-in-depth measures implemented in the Firefox […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2020

Cisco Talos discloses technicals details of Chrome, Firefox flaws

Cisco’s Talos experts disclosed the details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. Researchers from Cisco Talos disclosed technical details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2020-6463, is a memory corruption vulnerability that affects PDFium, an open source PDF […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020

Mozilla offers bigger rewards for Firefox flaws under its bug bounty program

Mozilla announced some changes to its Firefox bug bounty program, it promises bigger rewards for vulnerabilities and will accept duplicate reports if necessary. 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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2020

Google and Mozilla address serious flaws in Firefox and Chrome browsers

Google and Mozilla released new versions of Chrome and Firefox browsers to addressed several high-severity vulnerabilities. Mozilla has released Firefox version 75 that includes six security patches for the desktop, and two patches targeting to address vulnerabilities in the Android app. “With today’s release, a number of improvements will help you search smarter, faster.” reads the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2020

Twitter discloses privacy issue that caused caching of files sent via DMs in Firefox

Twitter discloses a privacy issue in the way the Mozilla Firefox cached private files sent or received via DM for up to 7 days. Twitter admitted that the private files sent via Twitter DMs were cached inside the users’ Firefox browsers for up to seven days, even if users have logged off. The problem is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2020

Mozilla addresses CVE-2019-17026 Firefox Zero-Day exploited in targeted attacks

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox browser that address a zero-day flaw (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. Mozilla has released security updates to address a critical Firefox browser zero-day issue (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. The CVE-2019-17026 flaw is an “IonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement,” where IonMonkey is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2019

Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users

Mozilla has removed four extensions from Avast and AVG from the Firefox site that are suspected to track user activity online. Four Avast and AVG Firefox extensions have been removed from Mozilla Addons Site over concerns of spying of users. “This add-on violates Mozilla’s add-on policy by collecting data without user disclosure or consent,” explained […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019

Old known issue in Firefox allows HTML files to steal other files from victim’s system

Opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a weakness in the popular web browser. The security expert Barak Tawily demonstrated that opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a 17-year-old known bug in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2019

Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors

Firefox finally addressed the issues with antivirus apps crashing HTTPS websites starting with the release of Firefox 68. Mozilla announced that it will resolve the issues that caused antivirus apps crashing HTTPs websites with the release of Firefox 68 version. The problems began after the release of Firefox 65 in December 2018, since then experts […]

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Hijacking nearby Firefox mobile browsers via WiFi by exploiting a bug

Mozilla offers rewards for Bypassing Firefox Exploit Mitigations

Cisco Talos discloses technicals details of Chrome, Firefox flaws

Mozilla offers bigger rewards for Firefox flaws under its bug bounty program

Google and Mozilla address serious flaws in Firefox and Chrome browsers

Twitter discloses privacy issue that caused caching of files sent via DMs in Firefox

Mozilla addresses CVE-2019-17026 Firefox Zero-Day exploited in targeted attacks

Mozilla removed 4 Avast and AVG extensions for spying on Firefox users

Old known issue in Firefox allows HTML files to steal other files from victim’s system

Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors

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