Mozilla’s Firefox browser will soon warn users when they are visiting a website that has been compromised in the past, according to a report. The feature appears to be similar to “this site may be hacked” warning that Google search shows for a website that appears to be hacked. It will “offer a way for interested users to learn about and opt into a service that notifies them (e.g. “Firefox is just looking at which sites have been been breached and we’re discussing other ways of using the data in the future,” Hunt told Engadget. “They’ve got a broad reach and surfacing this info via Firefox is a great way to get more exposure around data breaches.”

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 06:45 UTC