Mozilla

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2017
New Dutch legal framework could cause Mozilla to take off the Dutch CA from its trust list.

Mozilla would remove the Dutch CA, the CA of the Staat de Nederlanden, from its trust list due to the new national legal framework. The Dutch Information and Security Services Act will come into force in January 2018 and one of the main effects of the new legal framework is that country’s certificate authority, CA of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
Experimental Mozilla Send service allows users share encrypted copy of huge files

Mozilla Send service allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with a single recipient. Mozilla has presented Send, an experimental service that allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2017
Mozilla Internet Health Report calls for more security and privacy

The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The Mozilla foundation has published its first Internet Health Report to analyze the dangers of the Internet that we can consider as a global commodity. The oligarchy of internet companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2016
Tor Project released an alpha version of the Sandboxed Tor Browser

Experts from the Tor project have launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. to protect users’ anonymity. Experts from the Tor project have launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. The Sandboxed Tor Browser aims to isolate the Tor Browser from other processes of the operating system in order to limit its ability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2016
The code of a Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used to unmask Tor Users is online

A zero-day exploit in the wild has been used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on Windows machines. The news is disconcerting and confirms the existence of a zero-day exploit in the wild that’s being used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on their machine. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2016
Here’s how Tor Project and Mozilla will make harder de-anonymizing Tor users

Tor Project and Mozilla are working together to improve the security of Tor users and make harder for attackers to unmask them. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies continue to invest in order to de-anonymize Tor users. In the past, we received news about several techniques devised by various agencies to track Tor users, from the correlation attacks to the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2016
Mozilla plans to ban the Chinese CA WoSign due to trust violations

Mozilla is at the point of banning Chinese certificate authority WoSign due to a number of severe violations that could impact Internet users. Mozilla is at the point of banning Chinese certificate authority WoSign due to a number of violations, including backdating SHA -1 certificates in order to subvert deprecating certs from being trusted. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2016
Mozilla will fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity

Mozilla plans to fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity. The flaw affects certificate pinning protections implemented by Mozilla. Mozilla plans to release a Firefox update to address the cross-platform remote code-execution vulnerability recently patched in the Tor browser. The tor is inviting its users to install the security update urgently, and Mozilla follows close […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
Bugzilla CVE-2015-4499 flaw, be aware hackers could know all your bugs

A Critical vulnerability affects Mozilla Bugzilla bug-tracking software could be exploited to access details of non-public vulnerabilities stored in its database. The open source Bugzilla bug-tracking system is used hundreds of thousands of software organizations that track the evolution of software bugs discovered in their applications. Development team urge to upgrade Bugzilla bug tracking system to fix the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2015
Mozilla Bugzilla accessed, private flaws compromised since at least 2014

Mozilla said that data stolen from its bug tracking system was used to attack Firefox users in the wild, but attackers probably have had access since 2013. A threat actor that stole sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla’s Bugzilla bug tracking system last year has likely used it to target Firefox users. Mozilla explained that it did […]