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Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Posted Sep 4, 2015 23:37 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
Parent article: Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Interesting that the linked FAQ - a PDF document - is presumably hosted on something resembling one of those Web caching nodes one sees all over the place nowadays, judging by the lengthy hostname on some unmemorable domain in the URL. It's almost like the punchline to a bad joke. (A Dropbox URL would have been the icing on the cake.)

A few things (maybe found in the FAQ) are still left lingering. For example, is this a general Bugzilla problem or more a specific thing to Mozilla's instance (which is unhelpfully referenced as just "Bugzilla")? Free Software really needs robust bug trackers and tools, despite what the GitHub crowd may say, and projects need the confidence to keep using them. If I were still running Bugzilla instances, I'd really want to know a bit more about what to do with this news.

(I remember dealing with MediaWiki and actually getting some pretty good security-related news from that project, even though it wasn't my software of choice, and even though I later ended up just using the Red Hat packages, anyway.)


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Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Posted Sep 4, 2015 23:56 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, read the FAQ. Bad guys obtained somebody's password. This is neither specific to Mozilla's bug tracker instance, nor to Bugzilla as software, nor even to the concept of bug trackers.

Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Posted Sep 5, 2015 12:49 UTC (Sat) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

OK. Thanks for summarising in a more concise and coherent way than a blog post entitled "Improving Security for Bugzilla" and saving me from digging up the essentials from an FAQ document published on ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com.

Mozilla: Improving Security for Bugzilla

Posted Sep 17, 2015 9:07 UTC (Thu) by ssokolow (guest, #94568) [Link]

Yeah. NetDNA is the old/legacy name of MaxCDN's enterprise offering. They're basically the current "cool kid" competitor to Akamai because they offer http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/


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