Michael Coates from Mozilla’s Infrastructure Security team presented on top web security threats and how new security controls in Firefox can be leveraged to increase the security of a website … Read more
Issue There is a specific security issue with the WebGL implementation in Firefox 4. Impact to users This issue allows attackers to capture screen shots of private or confidential information. … Read more
Mozilla recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion regarding the economics of vulnerabilities and bug bounties at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam. Out of … Read more
I made a statement in my previous post, SHA-512 w/ per Users Salts about a “significant hit rate” when it comes to dictionary attacking hashes. This significant hit rate is … Read more
Back in January, I was having a causal conversation about passwords at a local gathering about security and was asked what we use for storing the passwords. I stated that … Read more
Over the weekend Mozilla led an open source boot camp at Stanford University with a great lineup of courses including a hands-on web security lab where students performed actual exploits … Read more
HTTPOnly, Secure Flag, Strict Transport Security, X-Frame-Options, Content Security Policy The vast majority of application security occurs within the application’s code. However, there are a few key security controls that … 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 The certificates have been revoked by their issuer which should protect most users.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
The AppSec space is an extremely challenging field to work in, largely due to asymmetry; when you play defence you have to work to stay on top of each emerging … Read more
We are working hard to advance the security of Mozilla web applications. This includes efforts such as threat modelling, security training, security throughout development, code review, testing, the bounty program, … Read more