In all, Firefox 34 fixes eight security issues, three of which are described as critical. Speaking to SC Magazine, Chad Weiner, director of product management for Firefox said “We have dropped support for SSLv3 entirely, which will protect more users from its inherent vulnerabilities. We’re putting users’ safety online first, and trying to aggressively push the Web towards more secure alternatives (i.e. The fix means that Firefox users will no longer be vulnerable to POODLE, an exploit found by Google researchers in October that would allow hackers to intercept plaintext data from secure connections, reports Tech Week Europe. Firefox 34, the latest version of the Mozilla’s popular web browser has disabled support for SSL 3.0 in reaction to the POODLE exploit, reported by We Live Security back in October.
