Comodo Certificate Issue – Follow Up
This is a follow-up to the previous Mozilla report about the fraudulent certificates issued by Comodo last week. On 15th March 2011, a RA partner of the Comodo CA suffered … Read more
This is a follow-up to the previous Mozilla report about the fraudulent certificates issued by Comodo last week. On 15th March 2011, a RA partner of the Comodo CA suffered … Read more
Issue Mozilla has been informed about the issuance of several fraudulent SSL certificates for public websites. The certificates have been revoked by their issuer which should protect most users. This … Read more
One of the new features in Firefox 4 that we are very excited about is Content Security Policy, which is a mechanism that works behind the scenes to prevent some … Read more
There have been a number of reports about a new Firesheep tool that exposes a weakness in website security, letting attackers snoop on people using public networks, steal their cookies, … Read more
One of the security enhancements included with Firefox 3.6.9 is support for the x-frame-options header. This optional header can be included within the HTTP response to instruct the client’s browser on whether the returned content is allowed to be framed by other pages. Read more
A while ago, we talked about Force-TLS that lets sites say “hey, only access me over HTTPS in the future” and the browser listens. Well, this idea has been solidifed … Read more
Mozilla has accelerated its timetable and released Firefox 3.6.2 ahead of schedule. This release contains a number of security fixes, including a fix to Secunia Advisory SA38608 which was previously … Read more
Mozilla is aware of the claim of a zero-day in Firefox as posted here: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608/. We cannot confirm the report as we have received no details regarding the reported vulnerability, … Read more
[This post originally appeared on Mozilla Developer News] We hate crashes. When Firefox crashes, we try to get you back on your feet as quickly as possible, but we’d much … Read more
Mike Shaver has posted an update on the situation surrounding our blocking of the .Net Framework Assistant and WPF plugin. In it, he discusses the current state of affairs, the … Read more
A little over a month ago, I talked about a project we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date. This is a really important project … Read more
As we mentioned earlier we’ve been working for the past few months on turning the Content Security Policy specification into working Firefox code. (You’ll remember that CSP is a framework … Read more