One of the critical flaws was credited to HD Moore, the Metasploit Framework co-creator who is posting browser vulnerabilities throughout July on his blog; another was credited to TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, one of the two bounty-for-bugs program.
On Thursday, Mozilla updated its Thunderbird e-mail client to 1.5.0.5 by fixing 12 flaws, only one of which was elevated to "critical" (10 were labeled as "moderate"); the independent SeaMonkey project, which took over development of what had been the Mozilla browsing suite, posted fixes to the SeaMonkey bundle as well. Version 1.0.3, which can be downloaded from here, patched 14 vulnerabilities, all but one shared with Firefox.
The next-generation Firefox, meanwhile, continues to evolve on a separate track. Firefox 2.0 -- which released in Beta 1 two weeks ago -- is to move to Beta 2 on Aug. 8 and ship in final form on Sept. 26, according to a Mozilla release calendar.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
