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Short Bytes: Mozilla has launched a new open source project named Common Voice. It’s a speech recognition system that relies on online volunteers to submit their voice samples and validate the submitted samples. Mozilla aims to collect 10,000 hours of samples for speech recognition training. Last year, Google said that about 20% of the searches […]
A German security researcher Peter Welchering stated in an interview for a German newspaper namely Deutschlandfunk that Mozilla Foundation is collecting users’ personal data through the iOS version of Firefox Klar. Welchering’s findings were seconded by another researcher Hermann Sauer. The researchers collaborated together to evaluate the new app and identified the majority of data […]
At the end of last year, Mozilla hurriedly patched a zero-day vulnerability for Firefox that had been used against targets in the wild. Shortly after, Motherboard found that the related exploit had been deployed against visitors of a dark web child pornography site called The Giftbox Exchange, and sources said that a law enforcement customer […]
If it wants a password and doesn’t use HTTPS, Mozilla will breathe fire. Shoddy sites will have fewer places to hide with Firefox joining Chrome in badging cleartext sites that collect personal information as insecure. Mozilla’s labels won’t be as prominent as Google’s, introduced this year, which places the red letter label in the address […]
Short Bytes: Do you know about Mozilla Thimble code editor? This online editor is based on Adobe’s Brackets open source project. This tool lets you create new projects from scratch or by using popular templates. The users can see the changes side-by-side. They can also publish their projects and get a shareable URL. There isn’t […]
Short Bytes: Mozilla recently launched a free website security scanner named Observatory. This service works on top of a Python codebase that’s publicly available on GitHub. Website operators can simply visit the Observatory home page, enter their website, and get a quick security report of their website. This open source service also provides links to quality documentations […]
Short Bytes: In order to make your web browsing experience a lot better, Mozilla is integrating some key privacy features of TOR browser into its Firefox web browser. These features will go live with the final Firefox 50 release and make it a better Google Chrome alternative. TOR software suite is often regarded as one […]
Short Bytes: Recently, Mozilla filed a brief with the court, urging the FBI to reveal the technique used to hack 1000+ computers of pedophile TOR users. The open source supporter said that TOR software suite is based on Firefox and any known flaw can compromise the security of the end users. Last year, the Federal […]
Mozilla yesterday detailed a security attack on its bug tracker and testing tool Bugzilla, as well as the steps it is taking to mitigate a repeat incident. In short, a hacker compromised the service, stole security-sensitive information, and used it to attack Firefox users. Bugzilla is open-source software that has been adopted by a variety of organizations […]
Security experts constantly tell users not to reuse passwords on multiple accounts, but the message often falls on deaf ears. Now, officials at Mozilla are finding that advanced users don’t always follow that advice either after discovering that an attacker was able to compromise a Bugzilla user’s account by using a password taken from a data […]
Short Bytes: Mozilla has released Firefox 40 for Windows 10 and it comes with changes in user interface trying to blend with Windows 10’s theme. In another change, Firefox 40 for Windows 10 gives users an option to change Windows 10 desktop search’s default search engine. You must have read about Mozilla CEO’s angry open […]
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 […]
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 […]
The latest blog post on Mozilla’s blog revealed that they were working on a new web browser specially developed for developers. Mozilla has always supported open source and backed by its strong community, they know what actually developers feel and what they want. So to make it easy for developers they said on their blog […]
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 […]