{"id":21,"date":"2015-08-09T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-08-09T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T03:28:06","slug":"if-you-use-firefox-you-need-to-patch-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/if-you-use-firefox-you-need-to-patch-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Use Firefox, You Need To Patch Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.org\/zero-days\/2015\/08\/new-firefox-zero-day-patch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">zero-day threat has surfaced on Firefox browser<\/a>. \u00a0If a user lands on a compromised web page, the browser could fall prey to an attacker who could steal files on a Windows or Linux computer.<\/p>\n<p>The fix is simple, which just required to update the browser.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, open Firefox, click on Help&gt;About (if you don&#8217;t see the Help selection in the menu field, right click on the grey area towards the top of the Firefox window, and click on Menu Bar). \u00a0Once you click About, a box will open that will show you the version of Firefox you&#8217;re have installed and a button to upgrade, if applicable.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Update button (if it&#8217;s there &#8211; if you&#8217;re up to date, the button won&#8217;t be available). \u00a0Once the update is complete, you&#8217;ll be asked to restart Firefox, and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>Patches should be run on Firefox (and other applications) at least monthly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A zero-day threat has surfaced on Firefox browser. \u00a0If a user lands on a compromised web page, the browser could fall prey to an attacker who could steal files on a Windows or Linux computer. The fix is simple, which just required to update the browser. To do so, open Firefox, click on Help&gt;About (if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcmdx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}