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Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 may have user-agent issues

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 18, 2022

Mozilla developers have warned that sites may experience problems with the upcoming versions of Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 (released May 3 and March 29, 2022). The fact is that the release of new versions will mean that the user-agent values will become three-digit. The

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Mozilla Drops FTP Support Permanently with Firefox 88 Release

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 19, 2021

Last year, we talked about the fact that the Mozilla developers are dropping support for FTP, recognizing it as an insecure protocol. Thus, users will no longer be able to upload files via FTP, as well as view the contents of FTP links and folders in the browser. The refuse

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Google says that a quarter of all 0-day vulnerabilities are new variations of old problems

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyFebruary 4, 2021

Google analysts studied the 0-day vulnerabilities they discovered in 2020, and concluded that almost a quarter of the problems are new variations of already known bugs that had previously received patches. The authors of the report write that many problems could have been

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Mozilla completely stops development of Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 18, 2020

This summer, I talked about how ZDNet journalists drew attention of Mozilla engineers to numerous abuses of the Firefox Send service, which was actively used to spread malware. As a result, Mozilla has stopped development of Firefox Send indefinitely, but the developers have

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Mozilla Downsizing Affects Security Professionals

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 13, 2020

Earlier this week, Mozilla fired 250 employees, and another 60 employees moved to other teams. The media reports that Mozilla’s downsizing has seriously affected security professionals. Mozilla head and Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker said the organization is

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HIBP (Have I Been Pwned?) leak aggregator opens the source code

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 11, 2020

Founder of Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) Troy Hunt announced that after a series of unsuccessful attempts to sell the project, about which he talked this spring, he decided to open the source code. Let I remind you that HIBP, founded in 2013, is a service for verifying

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Google: 11 0-day vulnerabilities identified in the first half of 2020

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyAugust 4, 2020

Google Project Zero experts estimate that 11 0-day vulnerabilities, actively exploited by hackers, were identified in the first half of 2020. The current number of 0-day problems indicates that, most likely, that overall this year will be identified the same number of

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Mozilla suspended Firefox Send service due to abuse and malware

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 8, 2020

Journalists from ZDNet drew attention of Mozilla engineers to numerous abuses of the Firefox Send service, which was actively used to distribute the malware. Mozilla temporarily suspended the Firefox Send service (for the time of investigation), and the developers promise to

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Firefox Refuses to Support FTP Protocol

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMarch 19, 2020

ZDNet reports that Mozilla developers consider FTP to be an insecure protocol and will soon refuse to support it in Firefox. Therefore, users will no longer be able to upload files via FTP, and may not be able to view the contents of FTP links and folders in a browser. “We