Firefox broken logo Just one day after releasing version 16 of Firefox, Mozilla pulled the latest update to its open source web browser, citing a security concern. In a blog post, Michael Coates, Mozilla’s Director of Security Assurance, says that the developers discovered a vulnerability in the final 16.0 release which “could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which web sites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters”. The flaw appears to allow bad actors to acquire the user’s history, which potentially contains information that could, for example, make it easier brute force the user’s login credentials or expose a user’s reading habits and interests
