Firefox

Mozilla patches actively exploited Firefox zero-day

January 9, 2020

Mozilla has patched a Firefox zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-17026) that is being exploited in attacks in the wild and is urging Firefox and Firefox ESR users to update …

Firefox 70 lets users track online trackers

October 23, 2019

Mozilla has released Firefox 70.0, which delivers performance and power consumption improvements, helpful browser features, new options for developers and, most prominently, …

September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete

September 6, 2019

Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash …

Firefox now blocks third-party tracking cookies, cryptomining scripts by default

September 4, 2019

It took a lot of testing and tweaking, but Mozilla’s Firefox browser is finally being delivered with Enhanced Tracking Protection and a web-based cryptomining blocking …

Mozilla plugs critical Firefox zero-day used in targeted attacks

June 19, 2019

A critical Firefox zero-day remote code execution vulnerability is being abused in targeted attacks in the wild, Mozilla has warned on Tuesday. About the vulnerability …

Mozilla will block Firefox add-ons that contain obfuscated code

May 3, 2019

Mozilla has announced that, starting from June 10, Firefox add-ons containing obfuscated code will no longer be allowed on its Add-ons portal and will be blocked. “We …

Mozilla will use AI coding assistant to preemptively catch Firefox bugs

February 15, 2019

Mozilla will start using Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant developed by Ubisoft, to make the Firefox code-writing process more efficient and to prevent the introduction of …

Mozilla releases anti tracking policy, enhances tracking protection in Firefox 65

January 30, 2019

Mozilla has released Firefox 65, which includes enhanced, configurable protection against online tracking. The organization has also published an official anti tracking policy …

Tor Browser 8 is out: What’s new?

September 7, 2018

Version 8 of Tor Browser, the multiplatform browser that routes traffic through the Tor anonymity network, has been released this week. About the Tor Browser and this latest …

Firefox news: Fresh releases, Firefox Quantum for Enterprise, privacy protections

March 14, 2018

Firefox 59 (for desktop and mobile) and Firefox ESR 52.7 have been released to the public. Privacy enhancements and security fixes The former sports some performance …

Criminals can build Web dossiers with data collected by browsers

March 6, 2018

Everybody knows by now that websites collect information about users’ location, visited pages, and other data that can help them improve or monetize the experience. But …

Flaw in Grammarly’s extensions opened user accounts to compromise

February 6, 2018

A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use to them to log in to the users’ …