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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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Lucifer malware uses many exploits, is engaged in mining and DDoS attacks

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJune 29, 2020

Palo Alto Networks experts have prepared a report on Lucifer malware, which uses many exploits and, according to experts, “wreaks havoc” on Windows hosts. It is noted that the authors of the malware themselves named their brainchild Satan DDoS, but information

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Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyApril 15, 2020

Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled FTP support for Chrome. Google developers have been talking about abandoning FTP since 2014, since

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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