On February 25th, 2020 with 101 comments
Mozilla will bring its new DNS-over-HTTPS security feature to all Firefox users in the U.S. by default in the coming weeks, the browser maker has confirmed....
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On November 8th, 2019 with 119 comments
All major browsers -- including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave -- have plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH), a protocol...
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On October 8th, 2019 with 40 comments
doconnor writes: On the Mozilla Thunderbird blog it was announced that for the future Thunderbird 78 release, planned for summer 2020, they will add built-in...
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On September 26th, 2018 with 36 comments
Mozilla announced today a new recovery option for Firefox Accounts, the user system included inside the Firefox browser. ZDNet: Starting today, users can...
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On March 18th, 2018 with 74 comments
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: For at past nine years, Mozilla has been using an insufficiently strong encryption mechanism for the "master...
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On December 20th, 2017 with 244 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: The increased adoption of HTTPS among website operators will soon lead to browsers marking HTTP...
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On March 19th, 2017 with 228 comments
"WikiLeaks has made initial contact with us via secure@microsoft.com," a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard -- but then things apparently stalled. An...
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On October 16th, 2016 with 63 comments
For the first time ever, secure HTTPS encryption was used for over half the pageloads served to Mozilla users, representing a big milestone for encryption....
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On April 29th, 2016 with 29 comments
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Earlier this week, it emerged that a section of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK's signal...
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On March 17th, 2016 with 39 comments
wiredmikey writes: Pwn2Own 2016 contestants hacked Apple's Safari Web Browser, Adobe Flash Player and Google Chrome, and earned more than $280,000 on the first...
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On February 12th, 2016 with 288 comments
darthcamaro writes: For the last decade, the Pwn2own hacking competition has pitted the world's best hackers against web browsers to try and find zero-day...
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On January 8th, 2016 with 87 comments
mitcheli writes: If you're hanging on to the theory that collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 aren't yet practical, two researchers from INRIA, the French...
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On December 18th, 2015 with 388 comments
maxcelcat writes: I've used Thunderbird for about a decade, and Netscape Mail before that (I have an email from 1998 from Marc Andreessen, welcoming me to...
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On September 2nd, 2015 with 40 comments
msm1267 writes: Google, Microsoft and Mozilla today announced they've settled on an early 2016 timeframe to permanently deprecate the shaky RC4 encryption...
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On August 18th, 2015 with 88 comments
vivaoporto writes: Clint Ruoho reports on gnu.gl blog the process of discovery, exploitation and reporting of multiple vulnerabilities in Pocket, the third...
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On May 3rd, 2015 with 240 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In April 2015, we saw the naming of Microsoft Edge, the release of Chrome 42, and the first full month of Firefox 37 availability....
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On April 10th, 2015 with 116 comments
jones_supa writes: As part of an effort to make encryption a standard component of every application, the Linux Foundation has launched the Let's Encrypt...
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On March 5th, 2015 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader writes The next version of Firefox will roll out a 'pushed' blocklist of revoked intermediate security certificates, in an effort to avoid...
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On September 5th, 2014 with 67 comments
msm1267 writes: Mozilla has deprecated 1024-bit RSA certificate authority certificates in Firefox 32 and Thunderbird. While there are pluses to the move such...
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On December 22nd, 2012 with 209 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would...
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On October 11th, 2012 with 165 comments
Shortly after the release of the newest major version of Firefox, an anonymous reader writes with word that "Mozilla has removed Firefox 16 from its installer...
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On July 4th, 2011 with 164 comments
theweatherelectric writes "The pdf.js project aims to implement a PDF viewer using standards-compliant Web technologies. The project has reached its first...
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On January 19th, 2011 with 481 comments
surveyork writes "Firefox 4.0 beta 9 (AKA 'a huge pile of awesome') was released on January 14, 2011. Firefox 4's release schedule includes a beta 10 and a...
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On December 28th, 2010 with 154 comments
wiredmikey writes "Mozilla yesterday sent an email to registered users of its addons.mozilla.org site, letting them know that it had mistakenly posted a file...
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On November 2nd, 2010 with 229 comments
alphadogg writes "Firesheep, the Mozilla Firefox add-on released about a week ago that lets you spot users on open networks visiting unsecured websites, has...
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On January 25th, 2010 with 141 comments
krebsonsecurity writes "The Web browser wars often focus on which browser is more secure, but the dirty secret is that insecure plugins are a serious threat to...
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On November 20th, 2009 with 208 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found several security holes in popular Firefox extensions that have an estimated total of 30 million downloads...
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On August 4th, 2009 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, who recently published new attacks on SSL at Defcon 17, seems to have released the new version of sslsniff which...
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On June 29th, 2009 with 160 comments
Al writes "The Mozilla foundation is to adopt a new standard to help web sites prevent cross site scripting attacks (XSS). The standard, called Content...
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On June 17th, 2009 with 202 comments
macupdate writes "Firefox 3.5rc1 has started trickling to users (mirrors and appropriate pages should all be updated soon). You can read the release notes. RC1...
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