Security: Mozilla Patch for Firefox and Getting Started with OpenSSL
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Zero-Day Flaw In Firefox Is Getting Exploited By Hackers; Update Now!
Mozilla has issued a warning of a zero-day flaw in Firefox browser that is currently being exploited in the wild. But the good news is that an emergency patch has been released for the same so you should update your browser now!
The vulnerability was discovered by Google’s Project Zero security team...
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Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1
A type confusion vulnerability can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects due to issues in Array.pop. This can allow for an exploitable crash. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.
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Getting started with OpenSSL: Cryptography basics
This article is the first of two on cryptography basics using OpenSSL, a production-grade library and toolkit popular on Linux and other systems. (To install the most recent version of OpenSSL, see here.) OpenSSL utilities are available at the command line, and programs can call functions from the OpenSSL libraries. The sample program for this article is in C, the source language for the OpenSSL libraries.
The two articles in this series cover—collectively—cryptographic hashes, digital signatures, encryption and decryption, and digital certificates. You can find the code and command-line examples in a ZIP file from my website.
Let’s start with a review of the SSL in the OpenSSL name.
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