This is an interesting development, I noticed the pop-up on my Firefox yesterday. The reason however wasn’t security it was ‘instability’.
It’s a fair move by Mozilla though as the add-on can cause security vulnerabilities in Firefox outside of their control. They can’t fix the software, so the best thing they can do to ensure user [...]
Ah a bug in our beloved Firefox, after the latest 3.5 update (which sees some definite improvements).
The last one I recall was the Clickjacking Vulnerability, which also effected Chrome.
It seems like it’s not too serious of an issue and will only cause crashing, there’s no room for remote exploitation or code execution. So it may [...]
Well seen as though we were talking about breaking passwords, here’s a tool for Firefox to help you manage your more secure passwords.
Better security without bursting your brain
Password Hasher is a Firefox security extension for generating site-specific strong passwords from one (or a few) master key(s).
What good security practice demands:
Strong passwords that are hard [...]
FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. Version 1.3 was pending the ExploitMe tools availability to the public.
Changes for version 1.3
Category Information Gathering (Googling and Spidering)
GSI Google Site indexer (GSI Creates Site Maps based on Google queries. Useful for both Penetration Testing and Search Engine Optimization. GSI sends [...]
As mentioned in the previous FireCAT 1.1 post, FireCAT 1.2 was released last month.
If you aren’t aware, FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions.
Changes for FireCAT 1.2
Renamed subcategory “Social Engineering” to “Data mining”
Bibirmer updated location (thanks to Zagrodzki Krzysztof from Telekomunikacja Polska)
Enhanced History Manager (to new subcategory Misc [...]
FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It can be used to turn your favorite browser (Firefox) into a powerful security framework.
FireCAT comes from “Firefox Catalog of Auditing Toolbox”
Changes for FireCAT 1.1
+ Category Network Utililies
- Added ffsniff to subcat “Sniffers”
- Added CrossFTP to subcat FTP (thanks to Benjamin [...]
XSS Warning is a extension/add-on for Firefox that filters malicious values to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by malicious URLs (assuming you have Javascript enabled).
XSS Warning 0.1.8 beta protect from:
URL attack
Redirect attack
Link code injection
Compatible with Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0
You can install and read more about XSS Warning here:
http://www.gianniamato.it/project/extension/xsswarning/
Grab the new Firefox now, 2.0.0.1! 8 Security Vulnerabilities have been fixed in this last release of the year 2006.
I’m glad to see Firefox upholding their quick turnaround and rapid fixing of issues that spring up during development and improvement of their product.
Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix [...]
I know this is old, but a lot of people still don’t know about it.
It can test for up to date Mozilla, Opera and Internet Explorer flaws, exploits and vulnerabilities.
Browser vulnerabilities are a serious issue now.
You can see which vulnerabilities they test for here and the statistics of the tests results here.
Total tests finished: 739828
Tests that [...]
