Security News

Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates
2024-08-01 12:28

Mozilla is following in Google Chrome's footsteps in officially distrusting Entrust as a root certificate authority following what it says was a protracted period of compliance failures. Entrust has apologized to Google, Mozilla, and the wider web community, outlining its plans to regain the trust of browsers, but these appear to be unsatisfactory to both Google and Mozilla.

Mozilla Firefox can now secure access to passwords with device credentials
2024-06-14 20:19

Mozilla Firefox finally allows you to further protect local access to stored credentials in the browser's password manager using your device's login, including a password, fingerprint, pin, or other biometrics. To be clear, this new feature does not protect against information-stealing malware but rather prevents people with physical or remote access to the device from using the stored credentials without first authenticating with the device.

Researchers Uncover Flaws in Python Package for AI Models and PDF.js Used by Firefox
2024-05-21 10:22

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the llama_cpp_python Python package that could be exploited by threat actors to achieve arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-34359 (CVSS...

Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues
2024-05-03 17:07

Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit.

Mozilla fixes $100,000 Firefox zero-days following two-day hackathon
2024-03-25 15:00

Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition.…

Mozilla fixes two Firefox zero-day bugs exploited at Pwn2Own
2024-03-22 17:45

Mozilla has released security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. Mozilla fixed the security flaws in Firefox 124.0.1 and Firefox ESR 115.9.1 to block potential remote code execution attacks targeting unpatched web browsers on desktop devices.

Google Search bug shows blank page in Firefox for Android
2024-01-09 14:48

Users of the Firefox browser for Android have been reporting that they are seeing a blank page when trying to load the main Google Search site. A report of the issue on GitHub confirms that the problem is reproducible on Firefox Mobile 121.0 for Android 13 and additional tests indicate the same behavior on Firfox Nightly 123 and all versions starting v65.

Video Encoding Library Leaves Chrome, Firefox and More Open to Zero-Day Attack
2023-09-29 19:12

Google and Mozilla have patched a zero-day exploit in Chrome and Firefox, respectively. The zero-day exploit could leave users open to a heap buffer overflow, through which attackers could inject malicious code.

Zero-Day Security Vulnerability Found in Chrome, Firefox and Other Browsers
2023-09-14 18:58

Zero-Day Security Vulnerability Found in Chrome, Firefox and Other Browsers Updates are now available to patch a Chrome vulnerability that would allow attackers to run malicious code. It's time to update Google Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox or Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge, the Brave browser or Tor Browser; web development news site StackDiary has reported a zero-day vulnerability in all six browsers that could allow threat actors to execute malicious code.

Mozilla Rushes to Patch WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Firefox and Thunderbird
2023-09-13 01:50

Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser. The shortcoming, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-4863, is a heap buffer overflow flaw in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing a specially crafted image.