Articles in “Security Updates”

Mozilla VPN Security Audit 2023

To provide transparency into our ongoing efforts to protect your privacy and security on the Internet, we are releasing a security audit of Mozilla VPN that Cure53 conducted earlier this … Read more

Firefox exploit found in the wild

Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded … Read more

DigiNotar Removal Follow Up

Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted … Read more

Fraudulent *.google.com Certificate

Update (Sept. 6, 2011 @10:37 a.m. PT): New security updates for Firefox are now available. Update (8.30.11 @ 11:25 p.m. PT) Mozilla just released an update to Firefox for Desktop, … Read more

Firefox 3.6.2 Released

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

Plugin Updating Project: Follow up

I wrote last week about a new project we’ve started, informing our users when they’re running out of date versions of popular plugins. We focused our initial efforts on the … Read more

Firefox 2.0.0.7 now available

Firefox 2.0.0.7 was released this afternoon to patch the QuickTime issue described here. This will protect Firefox users from the public critical security vulnerability until a patch is available from … Read more

Firefox 2.0.0.6 now available

We’ve just released Firefox 2.0.0.6 which contains a security patch to mitigate the issue described here. The patch enables percent-encoding for spaces and double-quotes in URIs handed off to external … Read more