reader comments 27 Mozilla’s Monitor Plus, a service launched by the privacy-minded tech firm in February, notes on its pitch page that there is “a $240 billion industry of data brokers selling your private information for profit” and that its offering can “take back your privacy.” Mozilla’s most recent move to protect privacy has been ..
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Enlarge / Some bugs are just perennially out of reach. (We are aware this is not a red panda, but we lack for images illustrating such a creature being lightly annoyed by a particular kind of insect). Getty Images reader comments 99 with Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for ..
Getty Images reader comments 50 with On Wednesday, Google reported that a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome browser is opening the Internet to a new chapter of Groundhog Day. Like a critical zero-day Google disclosed on September 11, the new exploited vulnerability doesn’t affect just Chrome. Already, Mozilla has said that its Firefox browser ..
Mozilla on Tuesday announced security updates for both Firefox and Thunderbird, addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities in its products, including high-severity flaws. Firefox 118 was released to the stable channel with patches for all nine vulnerabilities – all are memory issues, most of which could lead to exploitable crashes. Tracked as CVE-2023-5168 and CVE-2023-5169, ..
reader comments 68 with End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day vulnerabilities has skyrocketed this month and is likely to get worse in the following weeks. People have worked overtime in recent weeks to patch a raft of vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, with offerings ..
Mozilla and Google on Tuesday announced the release of stable updates for Firefox and Chrome to address several high-severity vulnerabilities, including memory corruption issues. Mozilla released Firefox 117 with patches for 13 vulnerabilities, including seven rated ‘high severity’, four of which are described as memory corruption bugs affecting the browser’s IPC CanvasTranslator, IPC ColorPickerShownCallback, IPC ..
Enlarge / Fakespot adds letter grading, adjusted review scores, and other context (“New Seller Alert”) to product pages across the web. Amazon/Fakespot reader comments 33 with Fakespot, a useful service that explains how products you’ve never heard of could have 12,000 reviews with a 4.6-star average, has been acquired by Firefox maker Mozilla, and Mozilla ..
Enlarge / Mozilla’s current logo for Firefox. reader comments 148 with 0 posters participating Share this story Companies like Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft have versions of their web browsers on Apple’s iOS and iPadOS App Stores, but these versions come with a big caveat: The App Store rules require them to use Safari’s WebKit rendering ..
reader comments 31 with 0 posters participating Share this story Google researchers said on Wednesday they have linked a Barcelona, Spain-based IT company to the sale of advanced software frameworks that exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Defender. Variston IT bills itself as a provider of tailor-made information security solutions, including: technology for embedded ..
reader comments 34 with 29 posters participating Share this story If you didn’t know that Mozilla made a VR-specific version of Firefox called Firefox Reality, then it’s OK for you to continue not knowing, because Mozilla announced today that it would be discontinuing support for the browser a little over three years after introducing it. ..