Liam Tung
| July 22, 2021 — 10:11 GMT (11:11 BST)
| Topic: Enterprise Software
Firefox 87 launch includes private browsing ‘SmartBlock’
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Firefox maker Mozilla has dropped support for the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in version 90 of the browser.
FTP has long been used to exchange files between computers on a network, but it’s burdened by enough security issues that browser makers are dropping support for the protocol because the exchange happens without encrypting data in transit between two points.
“The biggest security risk is that FTP transfers data in cleartext, allowing attackers to steal, spoof and even modify the data transmitted,” Mozilla’s security team note.
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Liam Tung
| July 22, 2021 — 10:11 GMT (11:11 BST)
| Topic: Enterprise Software