Google announced Monday that it will distrust certificates issued by WoSign and StartCom when in it ships Chrome 56 in January 2017.

Martin Thomson, a Principle Engineer at Mozilla confirmed TLS 1.3 will be turned on by default in Firefox 52.

The Firefox browser will now deny TLS connections to servers using weak Diffie-Hellman keys.

Mozilla has proposed banning new SHA-1 certificates from Chinese Certificate Authority WoSign for one year after it accused the CA of back-dating the deprecated certs.

A remote code execution in Firefox caused by the expiration of certificate pins was patched by Mozilla in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4.

Mozilla is expected tomorrow to patch a critical certificate pinning vulnerability in Firefox’s automated update process for extensions.

Chrome, Firefox and likely other major browsers are afflicted by a vulnerability that allows attackers to spoof URLs in the address bar. While Mozilla said it has patched the flaw in the affected Android version of the Firefox browser, Google said Chrome will be fixed in an upcoming September release. Some details about the flaw...

Starting next year, Firefox users who navigate to pages that contain Flash will be asked for their consent before activating the plugin. The move, long expected, comes as developers seek to curb usage of Flash in everyday web browsing. Benjamin Smedberg, Manager of Firefox Quality Engineering at Mozilla, confirmed in a blog post on Wednesday...

Starting next year, Firefox users who navigate to pages that contain Flash will be asked for their consent before activating the plugin. The move, long expected, comes as developers seek to curb usage of Flash in everyday web browsing. Benjamin Smedberg, Manager of Firefox Quality Engineering at Mozilla, confirmed in a blog post on Wednesday...

The FBI’s apparent capability to unmask users of the Tor Network has caused hand-wringing among those concerned with privacy and civil liberties, many of whom are busy trying to win legal battles to get law enforcement to confess as to how they’re doing it. A team of academics and researchers, however, have come up with...