Windows 10: Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

Brink · Jun 26, 2018

From shopping to social media, the average online user will have hundreds of accounts requiring passwords. At the same time, the number of user data breaches occurring each year continues to rise dramatically. Understandably, people are now more worried about internet-related crimes involving personal and financial information theft than conventional crimes. In order to help keep personal information and accounts safe, we will be testing user interest in a security tool that lets users check if one of their accounts has been compromised in a data breach.

We decided to address a growing need for account security by developing Firefox Monitor, a proposed security tool that is designed for everyone, but offers additional features for Firefox users. Visitors to the Firefox Monitor website will be able to check (by entering an email address) to see if their accounts were included in known data breaches, with details on sites and other sources of breaches and the types of personal data exposed in each breach. The site will offer recommendations on what to do in the case of a data breach, and how to help secure all accounts. We are also considering a service to notify people when new breaches include their personal data.

Partnership with HaveIBeenPwned.com

In order to create Firefox Monitor, we have partnered with HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP). HIBP is a valuable service, operated by Troy Hunt, one of the most renowned and respected security experts and bloggers in the world. Troy is best known for the HIBP service, which includes a database of email addresses that are known to have been compromised in data breaches. Through our partnership, Firefox is able to check your email address against the HIBP database in a private-by-design way. You can find Troy’s blog post on the partnership here.

How does it work?

It is important that we not violate our users’ privacy expectations with respect to the handling of their email address. As such, we’ve worked closely with HIBP and Cloudflare to create a method of anonymized data sharing for Firefox Monitor, which never sends your full email address to a third party, outside of Mozilla. You can read the full details of the solution here.

What will we be testing?

At this stage, we are testing initial designs of the Firefox Monitor tool in order to refine it. Beginning next week, we expect to invite approximately 250,000 users (mainly in the US) to try out the feature.

What to expect next

Once we’re satisfied with user testing, we will work on making the service available to all Firefox users. Once a release schedule has been established, it will be announced in a follow-up blog post.

In the meantime, check out and download the latest version of Firefox Quantum for the desktop in order to use the Firefox Monitor feature when it becomes available.

Download Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux
Click to expand...

Source: Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool - Future Releases

:)

Sasqui · Jun 26, 2018

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds

malware · Jun 26, 2018

Firefox 2.0.0.12 Security and Stability Update Released

As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.12 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download here. This update is strongly recommended for all Firefox users. For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 2.0.0.12 Release Notes.

Source: Mozilla

Jimmy 2004 · Jun 26, 2018

New Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

Anyone who uses Windows Vista and Mozilla Firefox may be pleased to hear that the Windows Media Player team has now released a plugin for Firefox that should allow the browser to play WMP content on websites. Here are the steps to get it working:

Installation of the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin may require administrative access to your PC. It is recommended that you close all other open browser windows before continuing with the installation.

Click the Install button to automatically download and install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin.

Depending on your security settings, you may see a Security Warning dialog box. Click Install to install the plugin.

There is a known issue if you are using Firefox version 2.0.0.3 on Windows Vista with the installer failing with error code -203. To work around this simply restart Firefox (you will get a notification that Windows Vista will be changing the Firefox compatibility settings) and then install again - the second time should succeed.

The download is available here, and the new plugin works on all versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista (although it is mostly intended for Vista, as that currently has no WMP support in Firefox).

Source: Windows Vista Blog

Windows 10: Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool

Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool - Similar Threads - Testing Firefox Monitor

System Tool Testing~~please help

New password security features come to Firefox with Firefox Lockwise

Firefox Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta

security key required..by Firefox?

security key required..by Firefox?

Mozilla closing Firefox Test Pilot program

firefox browser security

Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum

Microsoft Edge beats Chrome and Firefox in new security report