Firefox 33.1 aka The Anniversary Release Released

On November 9th, 2004 Mozilla released the first version of Firefox (Firefox 1.0). On November 10th, 2014, Mozilla pushed out Firefox 33.1 aka The Anniversary Release. Note: The previous release version was 33.0.1 so 33.1 is an upgrade. Some new features of this … Continue reading

Firefox and POODLE Attack

Google researchers announced recently of the POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) Attack which hackers take advantage of sites (around 0.3%) still using the outdated (introduced in 1996) SSLv3 security protocol. Mozilla has announced that SSLv3 will be disabled, unfortunately it won’t … Continue reading

Windows Won’t Install Updates

Some months ago I resurrected a Windows 7 Ultimate computer I had retired a couple years ago after it threw one too many (and consecutive) BSODs. I suspected that all my problems likely stemmed from trying to ‘upgrade’ it from Windows … Continue reading