Posts from April, 2012

Recently, Mozilla responded to an imminent threat to Firefox users who have an outdated Java plugin installed: Vulnerable versions of the plugin were blocked automatically (see blog post). Since then, I’ve been asked a few times why this is important; … Continue reading

Blocklisting Older Versions of Java

Apr 3 2012

Lucas Adamski

Mozilla recently implemented a block for older versions of Java (Version 6 Update 30 and below as well as Version 7 Update 2 and below) which are vulnerable to a critical security issue. For additional details, please see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/04/02/blocking-java/

Mozilla Security Blog

Posts from April, 2012

Why an outdated Java Plugin is so serious

Blocklisting Older Versions of Java