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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

March 22, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, dimitiri shelest, Firefox, firefox monitor, haveibeenpwned, HaveIBeenPwned.com, Mozilla Foundation, mozilla monitor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nuwber, onerep, Spamit, Troy Hunt, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:02:41 +0000

The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.

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Third-party app stores are coming to iOS: should we brace for new threats? | Kaspersky official blog

March 13, 2024 admin chrome, Firefox, iOS, iPhone, safari, SCAM, subscriptions, Tips

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:41:29 +0000

Learn about upcoming iOS changes in 2024 and how to use the new alternative browsers and app stores on Apple devices.

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Safe Chrome and Firefox settings for your organization | Kaspersky official blog

March 9, 2023 admin Browsers, Business, chrome, Edge, enterprise, Firefox, hacks, risks, Tips, Training

Credit to Author: Alexey Vovk| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:49:18 +0000

How to disable synchronization and make other browser settings safe for a company

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How to set up Secure DNS and Private DNS | Kaspersky official blog

February 17, 2023 admin advertising, Android, chrome, DNS, Firefox, internet, iOS, MacOS, privacy, Technology, Tips, windows

Credit to Author: Stan Kaminsky| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:46:46 +0000

What is Secure DNS and Private DNS, how to configure them, and what are the differences between the two?

ComputerWorld Independent

Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips

October 6, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, privacy, safari, Security

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.

Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.

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MalwareBytes Security

Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

September 22, 2022 admin cve-2022-3033, cve-2022-40959, cve-2022-40960, cve-2022-40962, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Firefox, Mozilla, news, thunderbird

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: CVE-2022-40959

Tags: CVE-2022-40960

Tags: CVE-2022-40962

Tags: CVE-2022-3033

Tags: Mozilla

Tags: Firefox

Tags: Thunderbird

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird which could be exploited to take control of a system.

MalwareBytes Security

Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links

July 20, 2022 admin ads, Brave, Facebook, Firefox, links, privacy, query parameter stripping, tracking

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:35:37 +0000

Facebook is reportedly switching out click identifiers for encryption, making it harder (if not impossible) to strip tracking from the URL.

The post Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Update now! Mozilla fixes security vulnerabilities and introduces a new privacy feature for Firefox

June 30, 2022 admin cve-2022-34468, cve-2022-34470, cve-2022-34478, cve-2022-34479, cve-2022-34482, cve-2022-34483, cve-2022-34484, enhanced tracking protection, Exploits and vulnerabilities, Firefox, ms-msdt, query parameter stripping

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:01:41 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox updates to the Release Channel that fix several security vulnerabilities and introduce a new privacy feature called Query Parameter Stripping.

The post Update now! Mozilla fixes security vulnerabilities and introduces a new privacy feature for Firefox appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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