Internet related News · 2015-09-05

Mozilla says Bugzilla compromised, initiates counter-measures

Mozilla has spoken of a security attack on its bugtracker & testing tool Bugzilla, & announced it had taken steps to mitigate a repeat Reports said a hacker compromised the service, stole security-sensitive information, & used it to attack Firefox users.
Bugzilla is open-source software that has been adopted by many organizations. Bugzilla is mostly public, access to security-sensitive information is restricted so that only certain privileged users can access it. Following the attack, Mozilla has now beefed up security on those accounts.

http://news.google.com Sep 4, 2015 

Mozilla today detailed a security attack on its bugtracker and testing tool Bugzilla, as well as the steps it is taking to mitigate a repeat incident …

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Mozilla improves Security for Bugzilla after security breach … -Ghacks.net

http://www.ghacks.net  Sep 4, 2015 

Mozilla announced today that it has improved security on Bugzilla as a response to a security breach.

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Attacker Compromised Mozilla Bug System, Stole Private … – Digital Era

http://digital-era.net Sep 3, 2015 

The version of Firefox released on August 27 fixed all of the vulnerabilities that the attacker learned about and could have used to harm Firefox users,” Richard Barnes of Mozilla said in a blog post explaining the attack. The bug that Mozilla officials believe the … Mozilla officials said that the attacker who gained access to the Bugzilla system ultimately had access to 185 separate bugs, including 53 severe security vulnerabilities. The good news is that 43 of those 53 …

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