{"id":69822,"date":"2013-02-04T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69822"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:03:44","slug":"firefox-to-block-java-silverlight-adobe-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/69822-firefox-to-block-java-silverlight-adobe-reader.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox to block Java, Silverlight, Adobe Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> will begin blocking plugins such as <a title=\"Adobe\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364802-Adobe\">Adobe<\/a> Reader, <a title=\"Java\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/422412-Java\">Java<\/a>, and <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> Silverlight in a move to increase security in its <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> web browser. The latest version of Adboe Flash will still be allowed by default.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla explained that this will curb &#8220;drive by&#8221; malicious software installations through vulnerable plugins.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox will introduce a &#8220;click to play&#8221; system whereby the user has to click an icon in order to load content.<\/p>\n<p>Users will still be able to permit older versions of the Flash plugin if they choose.<\/p>\n<p>No time frame has been given for the introduction of this feature.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software and security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to FNB banking ready for BlackBerry 10\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/69570-fnb-banking-ready-for-blackberry-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB banking ready for BlackBerry 10<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Office 365 and Office 2013 SA variants explained\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/69502-office-365-and-office-2013-sa-variants-explained.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Office 365 and Office 2013 SA variants explained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Most attacked computer ports revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/69230-most-attacked-computer-ports-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Most attacked computer ports revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Anonymous SA denies link to GhostShell hackers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/69668-anonymous-sa-denies-link-to-ghostshell-hackers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Anonymous SA denies link to GhostShell hackers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to 250,000 Twitter accounts hacked\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/69764-250000-twitter-accounts-hacked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">250,000 Twitter accounts hacked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a drive to increase security, Mozilla will begin blocking plugins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":44535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[2556,11399,981,2558,10582,18054,975,18052],"class_list":["post-69822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash","tag-firefox","tag-flash","tag-java","tag-microsoft-silverlight","tag-mozilla","tag-silverlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69822"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69826,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69822\/revisions\/69826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}