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Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

Published: 2022-09-22 12:00:00

Popularity: 32

Author: None

Keywords:

  • Exploits and vulnerabilities
  • News
  • CVE-2022-40959
  • CVE-2022-40960
  • CVE-2022-40962
  • CVE-2022-3033
  • Mozilla
  • Firefox
  • Thunderbird
  • Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: CVE-2022-40959 Tags: CVE-2022-40960 Tags: CVE-2022-40962 Tags: CVE-2022-3033 Tags: Mozilla Tags: Firefox Tags: Thunderbird Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird which could be exploited to take control of a system. (Read more...) The post Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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    Cisco Talos discloses technicals details of Chrome, Firefox flaws

    Cisco’s Talos experts disclosed the details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. Researchers from Cisco Talos disclosed technical details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2020-6463, is a memory corruption vulnerability that affects PDFium, an open source PDF […] The post Cisco Talos discloses technicals details of Chrome, Firefox flaws appeared first on Security Affairs.

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    Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled

    Published: 2020-03-17 12:16:27

    Popularity: 148

    Author: John E Dunn

    Keywords:

  • Privacy
  • Security threats
  • Vulnerability
  • Web Browsers
  • anonymity
  • browser privacy
  • Firefox
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • NoScript
  • the onion router
  • Tor
  • tor browser
  • The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.

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    Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS

    Published: 2020-02-25 15:15:33

    Popularity: 364

    Author: Bruce Schneier

    Keywords:

  • browsers
  • child pornography
  • DNS
  • Firefox
  • https
  • Mozilla
  • security engineering
  • terrorism
  • 🤖: ""Secure surfing""

    This is good news: Whenever you visit a website -- even if it's HTTPS enabled -- the DNS query that converts the web address into an IP address that computers can read is usually unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts the request so that it can't be intercepted or hijacked in order to send a user to a malicious site. [...]...

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    Mozilla bans Firefox extensions for executing remote code

    Mozilla’s policy is unambiguous - add-ons must be self-contained and not load remote code, which opens up the user to all sorts of risks.

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