Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:24:56 +0000
Ever bypassed a website paywall using a browser’s privacy mode? It was once a simple hack, however, it no longer works for most websites.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7mBVTCcCHZk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:28:43 +0000
Mozilla is integrating its Lockwise password manager directly into the browser and expanding its support for the Have I Been Pwned website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/q-NknoPxSgU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:30:58 +0000
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| A weekly roundup of security news from June 3–9, including Magecart, breaches, hyperlink auditing, Bluekeep, FTC, and facial recognition. Categories: Tags: botnetbrowserschinacryptominingdata leaksfacial recognitionfbiFTCmicrosoftvulnerabilityweb browsers |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:00:44 +0000
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| This Safer Internet Day, we’re presenting a guideline to employees on how to navigate the online trenches safely, whether they’re on their desktop computers, company-owned laptops, or mobile devices. Who wants to be the one responsible for a breach? No one. Categories: Tags: browser-based attacksdetectifyethical hackershackersinternetsafer internet dayweb browsersweb security |
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 06:31:00 -0700
If your web browser was recording audio and video of you without any indication it was doing so, would you consider that invasion of privacy a security issue? Chrome doesn’t.
After AOL web developer Ran Bar-Zik discovered that a website can record audio and video without the red recording light appearing on the Chrome tab, he reported the bug.
But since users are the crux of problem, Google doesn’t classify it as a security flaw. That’s because before any audio or video recordings, a user has to give a site permission before it can access a user’s webcam or microphone.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:03:00 -0700
Google yesterday updated Chrome to patch several vulnerabilities, including a bug in the browser’s JavaScript engine that a Chinese team tried to exploit at a recent hacking contest.
The update to version 57.0.2987.133 contained fixes for five vulnerabilities, one marked “Critical” — the most serious rating in Google’s system — and the others tagged “High.”
Of the four vulnerabilities ranked High, one was attributed to “Team Sniper,” one of five groups from Chinese company Tencent Security that participated in this year’s edition of Pwn2Own, one of the world’s best-known hacking contests. Pwn2Own ran March 15-17 alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:18:16 +0000
A VPN’s not a perfect solution to your privacy problems, but it’s a start. The post If You Want a VPN to Protect Your Privacy, Start Here appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:21:00 -0700
Developers of the popular LastPass password manager rushed to push out a fix to solve a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to steal users’ passwords or execute malicious code on their computers.
The vulnerability was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy and was reported to LastPass on Monday. It affected the browser extensions installed by the service’s users for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
According to a description in the Google Project Zero bug tracker, the vulnerability could have given attackers access to internal commands inside the LastPass extension. Those are the commands used by the extension to copy passwords or fill in web forms using information stored in the user’s secure vault.
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