Mozilla Nabs Top UI Developers from Humanized
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Mozilla has hired top employees at Humanized, a small company known for its innovative work in intuitive user interfaces.
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The software company has undergone an extreme makeover.
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Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links.The bug, rated &quot;moderate&quot; by Mozilla, lies in the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol handling technology that is used to launch programs -- an e-mail client for example -- from within the browser. Over the past few months, security researchers have been discovering an increasing number of ways that this technology can be misused, often as a way to install unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer.The URI patch is one of eight security bug-fixes that Mozilla has pushed out with the 2.0.0.8 update, released late Thursday.Mozilla developers originally thought that the issue lay within Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer software, which could be invoked in a malicious fashion via Firefox. Several days after issuing their first patch, however, they realized that there was a problem with Firefox as well, and rushed out the 2.0.0.6 update.Now, three months after that fix, they&#39;ve patched another URI bug in Firefox that will cut down on the likelihood of programs being launched maliciously through the browser. The 2.0.0.6 release &quot;did not prevent the incorrect file-handling programs from launching which left some risk,&quot; Mozilla said in its advisory . &quot;An additional fix has been applied to Firefox 2.0.0.8 that detects when Windows would mishandle these URIs so that the wrong program does not get launched.&quot;Mozilla developers weren&#39;t certain that this latest twist on the URI problem could really be exploited in Firefox, but they decided to issue this latest URI patch rather than wait to find out for certain, said Window Snyder, Mozilla&#39;s security chief. &quot;We could just say this particular vector is not an issue because we do not have proof,&quot; she said. &quot;We could leave it alone. Rather than spend our time analyzing whether this is a vector that could be vulnerable, we would rather put the block in place and eliminate the possibility. This is a defense-in-depth measure.&quot;Microsoft has said that it plans to patch underlying components in the Windows operating system in an effort to prevent URI protocol handler attacks, and that will probably go a long way in preventing new attacks from cropping up, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations, with nCircle Network Security. &quot;We have to applaud the Mozilla team for attempting to protect their users, but in the end, it&#39;s going to be a Microsoft responsibility,&quot; he said.Of the eight vulnerabilities patched Thursday, two are rated critical by Mozilla.The 2.0.0.8 release also adds support for Apple&#39;s Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, code-named Leopard, although Mozilla warns &quot;there are some known issues affecting some media plugins,&quot; on this platform.
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TechWeb - Mozilla Corp. has hired a former Microsoft security strategist to help secure its open-source software, particularly its Firefox browser.
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With the release of its latest Firefox 2.0.0.5 browser, the chief security officer at Mozilla says they have fixed a number of potentially serious vulnerabilities.
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For those who have been technology enthusiasts for years, there is a familiar war brewing in the technology industry. Mozilla, an open-source community of developers and testers that was started by Netscape
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Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast
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TechWeb - Boutique services company MozSource now offers e-mail technical support services for the Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client.
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The latest beta of Mozilla's browser has been up and running for
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InfoWorld - Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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The last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0 is released.
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Just days after the Mozilla Foundation released the final version of its standalone Firefox browser, a security firm Thursday said that earlier editions were buggy and should be replaced.
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The Mozilla Foundation has unveiled the most complete preview version yet of its stand-alone e-mail application. The release comes only weeks after the launch of its Firefox browser version 1.0, and is part
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Mozilla Corp. has hired a former Microsoft Corp. security strategist to help lock down its open source products against online attacks.
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&quot;Corporate execs are more comfortable with a known brand name. Even though Mozilla (and FF, Camino, K-Meleon, etc.) are based on the same code, they are not &quot;Netscape&quot;. When execs are made aware of the faults and deficiencies of IE, they may think &quot;I wish ...
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Mozilla Foundation, creators of the open-source browser Firefox, has released version 1.0 of its highly successful browser today. Firefox 1.0 browser will strongly compete against Microsoftâs Internet Explorer with more features and functionalities.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.