Security News > 2019 > July > Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors

2019-07-02 07:48
Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure HTTPS connections. Most Antivirus software offers web security feature that intercepts encrypted HTTPS connections to monitor the content for malicious web pages before it reaches the web browser. To
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