Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2020
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 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 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 âIonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement,â where IonMonkey is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2019
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
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 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
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
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
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 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 […]
