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A week in security (January 16—22)

January 23, 2023 admin bossware, chromium, Credit card fraud, Facebook, git flaw, GitHub, google, instagram, lastpass, liquor control board of ontario, mailchimp, news, ransomware, rust, surveillance firm, sweepwizard, TikTok, tracketpacer, vice society, voyager labs, zoho manageengine

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The most interesting security related news from the week of January 16-22.

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Google to support the use of Rust in Chromium

January 16, 2023 admin chromium, google, memory safety, news, rule of two, rust

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Google has announced that it will support the use of third-party Rust libraries in Chromium which is a step forward in memory safety for the browsers.

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Chromium browsers can write to the system clipboard without your permission

August 30, 2022 admin chrome, chromium, clipboard, clipboard manager, Exploits and vulnerabilities, google doodles, jeff johnson, news

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Chromium browsers can write to the system clipboard without user consent or knowledge

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You can be tracked online using your Chrome browser extensions

June 21, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, chromium, extensions, fingerprinting, privacy

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:45:38 +0000

We look at a new project which uses several techniques to determine which Chrome extensions are being used on a device.

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It’s official, today you can say goodbye to Internet Explorer. Or can you?

June 15, 2022 admin chromium, edgehtml, Internet Explorer, microsoft, reports, Windows 10

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:21:16 +0000

Microsoft is ready to phase out Internet Explorer and will start the procedure today. Are you ready as well? And will it solve a lot of security issues?

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January 2020 Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 50 bugs

January 14, 2020 admin chromium, Edge, elevation of privilege, Exploits, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, RDP, SophosLabs Uncut, Updates, Vulnerability, windows

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:15:18 +0000

This month’s big security news from Microsoft is the end of support for Windows 7, and a patch of a cryptographic library<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/wiyw9sHJyLE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites

August 27, 2019 admin advertising, Alexa, alexa-ranked websites, chromium, Clickjacking, clickjacking attacks, clickjacking research, Observer, ranking, research, study, web threats, websites

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:36:52 +0000

We look at recent research exploring the threat of clickjacking, along with other solutions considered by site owners and analysts for protecting users against these online attacks.

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