{"id":100695,"date":"2020-01-11T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/mozilla-warns-firefox-users-to-update-after-targeted-attacks"},"modified":"2020-01-11T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T11:43:10","slug":"mozilla-warns-firefox-users-to-update-after-targeted-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/mozilla-warns-firefox-users-to-update-after-targeted-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla warns Firefox users to update after \u2018targeted attacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mozilla-warns-firefox-users-to-update-after-targeted-attacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/mozilla\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"mozilla\">Mozilla<\/a> has warned Firefox users to update their browser to the latest version after security researchers found a vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in \u201ctargeted attacks\u201d against users.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, found by Chinese security company Qihoo 360, was found in Firefox\u2019s just-in-time compiler. The compiler is tasked with <a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2017\/02\/a-crash-course-in-just-in-time-jit-compilers\/\">speeding up performance<\/a> of JavaScript to make websites load faster. But researchers found that the bug could allow malicious JavaScript to run outside of the browser on the host computer.<\/p>\n<p>In practical terms, that means an attacker can quietly break into a victim\u2019s computer by tricking the victim into accessing a website running malicious JavaScript code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has warned Firefox users to update their browser to the latest version after security researchers found a vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting in \u201ctargeted attacks\u201d against users. The vulnerability, found by Chinese security company Qihoo 360, was found in Firefox\u2019s just-in-time compiler. The compiler is tasked with speeding up performance of JavaScript to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}