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Mozilla Firefox browser gets security boost
Published September 2nd, 2008 in Browser Security, Firefox, Mozilla, Security
Carnegie-Mellon University Monday announced it’s making available a free add-on to Mozilla Firefox 3.0 that’s intended to boost browser security. The Firefox add-on was developed at the university’s School of Computer Science and College of Engineering and is available for download here.
According to the university, the Perspectives software not only protects Firefox users against attacks that might occur because of the recently disclosed software flaw in the DNS, but it also defends against some digital-certificate problems that crop up in everyday use. "When Firefox users click on a Web site that uses a self-signed certificate, they get a security error message that leaves many people bewildered," said David Andersen, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University, in a statement. Mozilla Firefox browser gets security boost - Network World
