Information Protection and Security

Security update also patches 9 bugs in older Firefox 3.0.
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Microsoft has updated the advisory for MS09-054, a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer, to describe its impact on Firefox users. The first version failed to mention any impact, leading to what may have been an overreaction on Mozilla's part. An entry on Microsoft's Security Research & Defense blog goes into the matter further. The bottom line: Firefox users should apply MS09-054, even though it's labeled as an update for IE.
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Mozilla developers have launched a new online tool that tells Firefox users whether popular add-on components such as Java or QuickTime are up to date.
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Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.
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Computerworld - Mozilla shuttered its online store late Tuesday after finding out that the firm it hired to run the backend operations of the company's e-tailing business had suffered a security breach.
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Two days after disclosing two vulnerabilities that had been fixed in Firefox 3.5 (which had been released weeks before), Mozilla has disclosed 4 more vulnerabilities, 2 of them critical, and released new versions of Firefox to address them.
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SBerry (aka Simon Berry-Byrne) has discovered an exploitable vulnerability in the new Firefox 3.5.
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Mozilla has responded to enhanced privacy settings in rival browsers from Microsoft, Apple and Google with new privacy features of its own.
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Due to a bug rated with "High" severity Mozilla has released new versions of the Thunderbird mail client and SeaMonkey Application Suite. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 and SeaMonkey 1.1.17 are available for download or through the Updates menus.
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Adobe has announced a series of measures to improve security throughout the company's products and practices. Growing out of a threat landscape that has brought unwelcome attention to Adobe Reader and Acrobat from malicious actors across the Internet, the company months ago began a 3-pronged approach to improving the safety of their software.
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