Mozilla

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Mozilla plans to ban Firefox Extensions containing obfuscated code

Mozilla is going to update the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. Mozilla announced a change to the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. The move aims to prevent malicious extensions to threaten Firefox users. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2019
Mozilla will disable Adobe Flash by default starting from Firefox 69

Starting from Firefox 69, Mozilla will disable Adobe Flash by default, a process that aims to completely remove the support for the popular plugin.  Mozilla announced that the Firefox 69 will no longer support Adobe Flash due to a large number of serious flaws exploited by hackers in attacks across the years. The decision was […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2018
Firefox 60 supports Same-Site Cookies to prevent CSRF attacks

This week Mozilla announced that the upcoming Firefox 60 version will implement a new Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection by introducing support for the same-site cookie attribute. An attacker can launch a CSRF attack to perform unauthorized activities on a website on behalf of authenticated users, this is possible by tricking victims into visiting a specially crafted webpage. “Cross-Site […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Mozilla fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser  (aka Firefox Quantum) that addresses a critical flaw that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute […]

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 […]