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Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning

posted onDecember 22, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Firefox version 85 will be released in January 2021, and one of its features is increased user privacy via improvements in client-side storage (cache) partitioning. This has been widely and incorrectly reported elsewhere as network partitioning, likely due to confusion around the privacy.partition.network_state flag in Firefox, which allows advanced users to enable or disable cache partitioning as desired.

Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks

posted onJanuary 26, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: ZDNet

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code.

The add-ons have been banned and removed from the Mozilla Add-on (AMO) portal to prevent new installs, but they've also been disabled in the browsers of the users who already installed them.

Make sure your Firefox browser is updated now to patch a critical flaw

posted onJanuary 10, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: CNet

The latest update to Firefox comes with a patch to a critical vulnerability that's being abused by hackers, says Mozilla, the browser's maker. The flaw could let attackers take over your system, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

That's about as serious as a vulnerability can get. The good news is that Mozilla, which prides itself on protecting user privacy, released the patch Wednesday. Even better: The company has automatic updates on by default.

Mozilla launches Firefox Send for private file sharing

posted onMarch 14, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: Malware Bytes

Mozilla look to reclaim some ground from the all-powerful Chrome with a new way to send and receive files securely from inside the browser. Firefox Send first emerged in 2017, promising an easy way to send documents without fuss. The training wheels have now come off and Send is ready to go primetime. Will it catch on with the masses, or will only a small, niche group use it to play document tennis?

How does it work?

Mozilla Looks To Improve Email With 2019 Thunderbird Roadmap

posted onJanuary 4, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: eWeek

Mozilla, an organization that is best known for its Firefox web browser, is starting 2019 by renewing focus on its Thunderbird email client. It's a move that comes after a meandering 20-year path for the open-source organization's email efforts.

Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix

posted onDecember 10, 2018
by l33tdawg
Credit: ZDNet

Malware authors, ad farmers, and scammers are abusing a Firefox bug to trap users on malicious sites.

This wouldn't be a big deal, as the web is fraught with this kind of malicious sites, but these websites aren't abusing some new never-before-seen trick, but a Firefox bug that Mozilla engineers appear to have failed to fix in the 11 years ever since it was first reported back in April 2007.

Firefox is getting a Tor-based security upgrade

posted onNovember 2, 2017
by l33tdawg
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Mozilla is making Firefox a more private experience by taking cues from Tor, the browser of choice for those who dare to visit the dark web.

The non-profit Mozilla Foundation will remove a “feature” called canvas fingerprinting from Firefox, which allows user-tracking across multiple sites without cookies, in it’s upcoming build. It’ll do this by imitating Tor, which was built on modified Firefox code and already blocks tracking.