{"id":310643,"date":"2019-06-19T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=310643"},"modified":"2019-06-19T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:03:19","slug":"critical-security-flaw-in-firefox-update-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/310643-critical-security-flaw-in-firefox-update-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Critical security flaw in Firefox &#8211; Update now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2019-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>released\u00a0 security updates<\/strong><\/a> to fix a critical vulnerability in its browser software.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it was aware of targeted attacks which actively exploit this security flaw to take control of vulnerable systems.<\/p>\n<p>Through this exploit, attackers are able to inject code into the user&#8217;s system if they visit a page while running an unpatched version of the Firefox browser.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us-cert.gov\/ncas\/current-activity\/2019\/06\/18\/Mozilla-Releases-Security-Updates-Firefox-and-Firefox-ESR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>statement<\/strong><\/a> issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urged users to review Mozilla&#8217;s advisory and update their systems immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1 and apply the necessary updates,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/310451-samsung-warns-smart-tv-owners-to-scan-for-malware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung warns smart TV owners to scan for malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has released security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its browser software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":282307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[981,975,15511],"class_list":["post-310643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-security-flaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}