Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox’s extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected. The ...
The Web of Trust (WOT) service add-on aims to make browsing safer by monitoring the sites that users visit and warning when they run into a variety of danger such as scams, malware, and rogue web ...
Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code. The ...
An expired certificate on the Mozilla Add-ons infrastructure is disabling Firefox add-ons for millions of users, and is also preventing users from re-activating or (re-)installing extensions. The ...
Adding a VPN extension to Firefox will turn your browser into an IP-shifting tool that also lets you surf the internet more ...
Mozilla removed today 23 Firefox add-ons that snooped on users and sent data to remote servers, a Mozilla engineer has told Bleeping Computer today. The list of blocked add-ons includes "Web Security, ...
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The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal brought Facebook’s privacy issues to a head. Concerns over how Facebook manages user data, along with other highly charged issues around political advertising, ...
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Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability, but a second add-on remains blocked, the organization said on Sunday. Microsoft has confirmed ...
Mozilla Firefox users were surprised to see a mysterious add-on suddenly appear on their browsers, raising fears that it was the work of hackers. The add-on was later discovered to really be related ...