Mozilla’s enthusiasm for Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? service has cranked up a level with the news it plans to integrate its breach checking into a new tool called Privacy Monitor.
Tag Archives: Mozilla
Brave browser starts feeding ads to willing guinea pigs
Hands up who wants to sign up to receive advertising as they browse the internet? Probably no-one, and yet that’s exactly what the new Brave browser is asking its users to do.
Firefox fixes critical buffer overflow
Version 60.0.2 of the resurgent Firefox browser fixes a critical security flaw in its SVG rendering code.
Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more
The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we’ve known about for over a year.
Bizarre Chrome and Firefox flaw exposed Facebook details
Researchers have discovered a weakness in the way Chrome and Firefox interact with CSS3 that could have caused them to leak usernames, profile pictures and likes from sites such as Facebook.
Your Firefox account can now be secured with 2FA
Mozilla is rolling out support for two-factor (or two-step) authentication for anyone who has a Firefox account.
Firefox support for WebAuthn shows passwords the door
Passwords aren’t dead, yet.
Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
Mozilla promises all the revenue-generating analytics, none of the privacy-skewering.
Ex-Reddit mogul apologizes for making the world ‘a worse place’
“[Reddit] is awful and it’s gonna get worse.”
Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default – why this matters
Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak, but its the first version of the browser to do this without the user having to consciously turn it on.