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Privacy protection or criminal activity prevention? UK Government faces battle against tech companies on a hot matter UK Government drafted a plan for a new law that would legalize hacking “deeds” on computer systems by law enforcement authorities. Giant tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft – just to name a few- are ready […]
Do you know crashing Whatsapp desktop or mobile version doesn’t require advanced hacking skills or machinery, what you need is 4000 smileys? Yes, it’s true, you need 4000 smileys to crash WhatsApp. This bug was exposed by a security researcher (Indrajeet Bhuyan) who during his experiments typed in 4000 smileys and the WhatsApp’s desktop version got […]
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) was designed to help secure websites (those using HTTPS) by declaring to web browsers that they should communicate only via HTTPS with the server to protect connections against downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. Mozilla implemented support for HTST in its current form in Firefox in 2014 and it has been […]
Mozilla Firefox has blocked Adobe Flash Player and it’s a good news. If you are a regular Firefox user you must have faced this issue like whenever you open a website using flash it warns about blocking the flash part. The Firefox browser has blocked it until a new update being released; the only reason […]
Short Bytes: The web browsers we use are shipped with settings that promise private browsing to the users. In Google Chrome, this is known as the ‘Incognito’ mode whereas Firefox simply calls it ‘Private’ browsing. But, this mode isn’t as safe as you think. You need VPN services and Tor for full protection. the links […]
Do you know that not all web sites honor the native Do Not Track feature of your web browser? Even in the incognito mode, websites can still collect some data from you. Recently in a blog post, Mozilla wrote that with the Tracking Protection feature enabled, the decrease in page load time is as high […]
In a recent blog post, Mozilla has showed its intent to phase out the non-secure websites i.e. the HTTP. Earlier this week, Mozilla announced its plan to favor the websites who have HTTPS enabled. If this happens, the web will be divided in two parts: the HTTPS websites with full functionality and the other HTTP […]
Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox browser with a brand new security feature by improving the way encryption is managed in the Firefox. New Firefox 37 version has been released for various platforms: Windows, Linux, OS X and Android. At last month’s Pwn2Own browser security competition, various bugs were found in all […]
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 […]
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 […]