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This week, Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Sylvestre and Brian about Firefox! What’s up in the browser world, what’s coming, and what’s the new feature for Firefox on …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 812: Firefox and the Future
Watch out for the Russian hackers from the infamous RomRom group, also known as Storm-0978, Tropical Scorpius, or UNC2596, and their use of a custom backdoor. Continue reading Russian Hackers Exploit Firefox and Windows 0-Days to Deploy Backdoor
Russia-aligned APT group RomCom was behind attacks that leveraged CVE-2024-9680, a remote code execution flaw in Firefox, and CVE-2024-49039, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler, as zero-days earlier this year. “Chai… Continue reading RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor
On its 20th anniversary, Firefox “is still going strong, and it is a better browser today than it ever was,” according to TechCrunch.
In an interview, Mozilla’s interim CEO says one of the first things they did when was to “unlock a bunch of money to… Continue reading Firefox Gets More Investment in New Features, Prioritizing People (and Privacy) Over Profit
A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that “Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project. Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that… Continue reading 20 Years Ago Today: ‘Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft’
A "privacy by compartmentalization" measure I used to implement in my day to day surfing was to separate each part into Firefox profiles. (Work, Study, Finance…)
Recently I learned about Firefox Containers. It would be way more… Continue reading Firefox containers vs profiles, how contained are they?
Investigation of the use-after-free flaw is ongoing, but organizations and individual users can update Firefox now for a fix. Continue reading Firefox Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as early as September 28, while the site itself was showing …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild
Mozilla has pushed out an emergency update for its Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers to fix a vulnerability (CVE-2024-9680) that is being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2024-9680 Reported by ESET malware researcher Damien Schaeffer, CVE-2024-9680 is a… Continue reading Actively exploited Firefox zero-day fixed, update ASAP! (CVE-2024-9680)
Mozilla has released Firefox 131 for multiple platforms, addressing security vulnerabilities and introducing some new features. The update fixes at least seven high-risk security issues, none reportedly exploited in the wild. New features include Tab P… Continue reading Mozilla Releases Firefox 131 With Tab Preview and Text-Specific Links