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 fall. At Mozilla, we sponsor security audits of core open … Continue reading
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 will be taking this action in coordination with the Chrome … Continue reading
With the establishment of CSP Level 2, Mozilla shifted gears and reimplemented CSP in C++. This security feature first shipped in Firefox 4 (2011), and until now was implemented in a combination of JavaScript and C++. The new implementation is … Continue reading
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 in the last year. From the Heartbleed vulnerability to spikes … Continue reading
It has been just over a month since we announced the expansion of our bounty program to include selected web applications. We have received many bug reports and have awarded $40,000. We will make the resolved bugs public shortly as … Continue reading
Many people are not aware that we have paid a bounty in the past on web application security vulnerabilities which impact client security. We have only paid on critical or extraordinary web application vulnerabilities which have a direct impact against the client. We are now going to include critical and high severity web applications vulnerabilities. So we are giving a range starting at $500 (US) for high severity and, in some cases, may pay up to $3000 (US) for extraordinary or critical vulnerabilities. Continue reading
