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Mozilla has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym in a move to “support user privacy” while delivering effective online advertising. Anonym, founded by former Meta executives in 2022, helps advertisers and ad networks measure the performance of online ads wh… Continue reading Mozilla Acquires Ad Metrics Firm Anonym
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin. From a report: The browser extensions, which are hosted on the Mozilla store, were made unavailable in the Land of Putin on or around Ju… Continue reading Mozilla Defies Kremlin, Restores Banned Firefox Add-ons in Russia
Mozilla has announced a 0Day Investigative Network (0Din) bug bounty program for LLMs and other deep learning tech.
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May 2024 Patch Tuesday was unusual because we had security updates from Adobe, Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft on the same day. While individually from each vendor, the updates weren’t that large, managing them together was more challenging. On t… Continue reading June 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: Multiple announcements from Microsoft
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview. From a report: The principle is simple. Windows takes a snapshot of a user’s active screen every few seconds and dumps it to disk. The user can then scro… Continue reading Mozilla Says It’s Concerned About Windows Recall
The thunderstorms of April patches have passed, and it has been pretty calm leading up to May 2024 Patch Tuesday. April 2024 Patch Tuesday turned out to be a busy one with 150 new CVEs addressed by Microsoft. There were 91 CVEs fixed in Windows 10, 69 … Continue reading May 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: A reminder of recent threats and impact
This month, we have a new product preview from Microsoft, and some older products are being prepared for end-of-support. But before we go there, March 2024 Patch Tuesday was pretty mild, with 60 unique vulnerabilities addressed. We saw updates to Micro… Continue reading April 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: New and old from Microsoft
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that … Continue reading Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks
Mozilla Location Service offered “a free, open way to offer GPS-style location detection features” for developers on devices without GPS hardware, remembers the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons “with… Continue reading Mozilla Ends its Privacy-Friendly GPS-Style Location Service
Mozilla announced a reorganization that will result in layoffs, fewer products, and a new focus on trustworthy AI in its Firefox web browser.
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