Mozilla Removes And Blocks 2 Firefox Add-ons
It has not happened often in the past that Mozilla had to pull the plug on add-ons hosted at the official Firefox add-on repository. The developers of the popular Firefox web browser have some tools at their disposal to deal with add-ons that are either malicious in nature or insecure.
A recent blog post on the Mozilla Add-ons blog revealed that the developers had to deal with two add-ons falling in those two categories recently.
The first add-on, Mozilla Sniffer, contained code that intercepted and send login information to a remote server on the Internet.
It has not happened often in the past that Mozilla had to pull the plug on add-ons hosted at the official Firefox add-on repository. The developers of the popular Firefox web browser have some tools at their disposal to deal with add-ons that are either malicious in nature or insecure.
A recent blog post on the Mozilla Add-ons blog revealed that the developers had to deal with two add-ons falling in those two categories recently.
The first add-on, Mozilla Sniffer, contained code that intercepted and send login information to a remote server on the Internet.
