Let’s Encrypt certificates can now stand on their own for almost all newer versions of operating systems, browsers and devices.

The planned threading in shared memory update gives bad actors a way around the timer mitigations released by browser vendors.

Dueling browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, have patched bugs and beefed up security.

Much like Google, which updated Chrome yesterday, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Tuesday, fixing 40 vulnerabilities in the browser. The update, Firefox 45, included eight bulletins rated critical and patched a handful of serious use-after-free vulnerabilities and a pair of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. The lion’s share of the bugs, 14, were in the font-processing...

Google pushed out the latest version of its flagship browser Chrome on Tuesday, fixing three high severity bugs in the process. The update graduates the browser to version number 49.0.2623.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, according to a post on Google’s Chrome Releases blog this week. Two of the bugs, a type confusion vulnerability and...