Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Many people are switching from Internet Explorer to alternative browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Though that might make them feel more secure, the shift has also opened new doors for bad guys.
Case in point: We have no IE bugs to report this month, but both Firefox and Safari have ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Have you ever noticed that sometimes Firefox isn't very responsive while loading a page? As a frequent StumbleUpon user, this behavior grates on my nerves so I went looking for a solution.
When Firefox is loading a page it uses one of two modes: There's a high priority mode that doesn't ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
ActiveX controls made up most of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, according to Symantec.
The company has just released its semi-annual web security report and in it said that Microsoft's technology, primarily used to create add-ins for Internet Explorer, accounted for 79 percent of the 239 ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
I've just recently caught wind of a Firefox plugin called FormFox. Here's the description from the website:
Do you know where your form information is going? This extension displays the form action (the site to which the information you've entered is being sent.) In any place where you can enter data, ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Previous versions of Firefox had the option to block or allow 3rd party cookies removed from the GUI and completely hidden from view. You had to go to about:config and change the value of network.cookie.cookieBehavior to "1" if you wanted to block them, or keep it at it's default of ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Mozilla has released yet another beta version of the next generation Firefox web browser. Firefox 3 beta 5 doesn't have a ton of new features, but it fixes a lot of bugs and packs a bunch of under the hood tweaks that make the browser easier to use and more ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The Mozilla project is distributing version 2.0.0.13 of its popular open source Firefox browser. This release fixes several critical vulnerabilities which could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code or fake page content.
The browser's JavaScript engine contains several of the security vulnerabilities. Due to incorrect processing, attackers can execute ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
You installed Firefox. How do you make it more secure for daily use? How do the Mozilla developers ensure that they are doing all the right things? How do you safely browse the Internet?
These are not easy questions to answer, and some of the answers will be system/OS-dependent.
Security functionality in ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
If you use QuickTime or iTunes on Windows you might have seen something like this lately from your Apple Software Updates applet:
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