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Verified cryptography for Firefox 57

Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very … Read more

A Security Audit of Firefox Accounts

To provide transparency into our ongoing efforts to protect your privacy and security on the Internet, we are releasing a security audit of Firefox Accounts (FxA) that Cure53 conducted last … Read more

Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox

Protection against malicious downloads was added in Firefox 31 on Windows and in Firefox 39 on Mac and Linux. Thanks to Google’s expansion of their Safe Browsing service, Firefox 48 … Read more

Updated Firefox Security Indicators

This article has been coauthored by Aislinn Grigas, Senior Interaction Designer, Firefox Desktop Over the past few months, Mozilla has been improving the user experience of our privacy and security … Read more

Deprecating the RC4 Cipher

As part of our commitment to protect the privacy of our users, Mozilla will disable the insecure RC4 cipher in Firefox in late January 2016, beginning with Firefox 44. Mozilla … Read more

Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP

Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. There’s pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web.  In recent months, there have been … Read more

Tighter Control Over Your Referrers

The purpose of the HTTP Referer (sic) header is to help sites figure out where their traffic comes from. However, as the Web got more complex, the amount of information … Read more

MDN Database Disclosure

We have just concluded an investigation into a disclosure affecting members of Mozilla Developer Network. We began investigating the incident as soon as we learned of the disclosure. The issue … Read more

June is Internet Safety Month!

Happy Internet Safety Month, everyone! In today’s world it is more critical than ever to be aware of security risks online. High-profile and broad attacks made news quite a bit … Read more

Hack in the Box HackWeekDay 2014

The Mozilla security team is proud to be once again sponsoring the Hack-in-the-Box HackWeekDay competition, this time at the Haxpo conference in Amsterdam, 28-30 May 2014. Come learn about Firefox … Read more