A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed on December 17, a report by Computerworld said on Tuesday . According to the report, the database containing information of user accounts for the addons.mozilla.org site was accidentally placed on a public server. Mozilla became aware of the exposure on December 17 when a volunteer submitted a notification through its web bounty program

Mozilla Passwords Leaked Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 10:28:42 AM Following in the footsteps of Wikileaks.org and Gawker.com, Mozilla has been the latest corporation to announce that some of its information had been (accidentally) leaked onto the net. In a post on the company’s security blog, Director of Infrastructure Security Chris Lyon claimed that over 44,000 “inactive accounts using older, md5-based password hashes” of those who had registered to the Mozilla Add-Ons website had been unintentionally left on a public server since December 17th

A video screen shot of new Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Non-profit software developer Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) announced on Thursday it has named Gary Kovacs the organization’s new chief executive officer. The appointment will be effective on November 8th, at which point Kovacs will replace former CEO John Lilly who will join Greylock Partners as a venture partner. In his new role as Mozilla CEO, Kovacs will lead the company’s overall direction and its popular Web browser Firefox

A video screen shot of new Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Non-profit software developer Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) announced on Thursday it has named Gary Kovacs the organization’s new chief executive officer. The appointment will be effective on November 8th, at which point Kovacs will replace former CEO John Lilly who will join Greylock Partners as a venture partner.

IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome, a security researcher said today. When running on Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), IE7 and IE8 do not warn users when they click on a malicious link that automatically downloads a malicious dynamic link library, or DLL, to the PC, said Mitja Kolsek, the CEO of Slovenian security company Acros Security. …