British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.His first exploit relies on a poor Java implementation in a product called PowerDVD from CyberLink. PowerDVD plays DVDs on PCs and... read more
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Mozilla adds Security information to Firefox 37 Developer Tools
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-01-21 09:51
If you want to find out more about the security of a connection to a particular website or a request that a site made while it was loading, then it is quite difficult to do so right now in most browsers.
While you can look up protocol information if https is used with a click on the lock icon in the browser address bar, and go from there to retrieve additional information, it is taking quite some time to do so.
The transparent Fx0 will finally make you want a Firefox OS phone
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-12-30 00:44
Firefox OS is coming to Japan and doing it in style.
Mozilla ends Google relationship, Firefox will now default to Yahoo in the US
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-11-20 11:16
Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla a ton of money each year—estimated at around $100 million—for the privilege of being the default search engine used in the Firefox browser. This contribution represented the lion's share of Mozilla's income, something in the ballpark of 85 percent.
As Firefox turns 10, Mozilla trumpets privacy
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2014-11-10 23:31
Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine.
Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004, at a time when Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) had a stranglehold on the browser space, having driven Netscape -- Firefox's forerunner in many ways -- out of the market two years before. Mozilla has been widely credited with restarting browser development, which had been moribund under IE.
Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone—how bad could it be?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-10-08 00:29
Hey! You there! You've got it pretty good, you know that? While you're sitting there using your Internet-enabled device to read about some other Internet-enabled device, it's easy to forget that the majority of people doesn't have any access to the Internet at all. The "World Wide" Web is actually not that worldwide—only about one-third of the population is online. That's 4.8 billion people out there with no way to get to the Internet.