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Mozilla Revises Firefox Terms of Use After Inflaming Users Over Data Usage

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Mozilla Revises Firefox Terms of Use After Inflaming Users Over Data Usage

Image: iStock Mozilla wants to set the record straight: The company needs a license “to make some of the basic functionality” of its Firefox open source browser possible, but that does not give it ownership of a user’s data. The clarification comes days after the company introduced Terms of Use (TOU) for Firefox, along with an updated Privacy Notice, explaining that while it has historically relied on its open source license for Firefox, “we are…

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches One Actively Exploited Vulnerability, Among Others

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches One Actively Exploited Vulnerability, Among Others

December brought a relatively mild Patch Tuesday, with one vulnerability having been actively exploited. Of all 70 vulnerabilities fixed, 16 were classified as critical. “This year, cybersecurity professionals must be on Santa’s nice list, or, at the very least, Microsoft’s,” Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at cybersecurity software and services company Fortra, told TechRepublic in an email. Microsoft patches leaky CLFS CVE-2024-49138 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Common Log…

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Firefox Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability

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Firefox Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability

Mozilla, the company behind the browser Firefox, issued a fix on Wednesday for a zero-day vulnerability they say has been exploited. NIST lists the vulnerability as CVE-2024-9680, and its status as “awaiting analysis.” Firefox users should update to the latest version of the browser and of the extended support releases to protect their systems from potential attacks. Due to widespread use of Firefox, this issue poses a significant risk, particularly for systems that haven’t been…

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