Google and Mozilla Banning Chinese Certificate Authority from Chrome and Firefox

Due to a major trust breach last week, Chinese digital certificate issuing authority CNNIC (Chinese Internet Network Information Center) is facing the ban from Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Now, Chrome and Firefox won’t trust all the new digital certificates issued by the Chinese authority. Due to this, tons of users are likely to face […]

How To Make Mozilla Firefox Faster For Web Browsing

Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of the most popular web browsers available. It has a big user base and market share. Mozilla developers are constantly making important changes to make Mozilla faster. Apart from this, Mozilla is doing some strategic changes as well. On the financial front, it has been testing different default search engines […]

Firefox Plug-in Warns Users of NSA Surveillance

According to the recently leaked document from NSA by the Guardian, the U.S government is spying each and every conversation done by the American over the internet. Whether, it is via Google, Facebook or any other major brand. Furthermore, U.S government is also receiving phone records of millions of customer using Verizon. The program through […]

Silent Surveillance: Spyware ‘Hiding’ Under Firefox Products

Fireforx has accused Gamma international for using its name in one of the online products by the name of Finfisher. Finfisher is surveillance software used by the government to trap data. This software is installed without any prior information to the user. This software is shown as a firefox update to the user and user gets into […]

Mozilla FireFox Norway Website Hacked by PakCyberPyrates

The official website of FireFox designated for Norway (firefox.no) was hacked and defaced by XXx_Death_xXX of PakCyberPyrates from Pakistan. The site which was hacked on 24th of this month, took sometime to be restored as the hackers left their deface page along with a message on the main page of  Mozilla website, a software community best known for […]

Mozilla Firefox Official Website, Forum and Blog Hacked by Cybersec Hacking Crew

Official website of Mozilla Firefox Denmark, along with its forum and blog as been hacked by Sbkiller hacker  from Cybersec Hacking Crew. The hacking group is a Malaysian based group. Hckers left following deface massages on all the hacked domains: MOZILLA DENMARK PWNED Sbkiller Was Here!!! Me From Cyb3rs3c Crew” Mess With The Best Die Like The […]

Firefox: More Security, Less Privacy?

Perhaps I imagined it, but a few days ago when I allowed Firefox to update to fix security vulnerabilities my privacy settings were reset to less private settings. I had Firefox set to clear the history on exit, and prompt me. I also had it set not to accept third party cookies. After the upgrade