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Chrome puts insecure sites behind a permission prompt

Google has rolled out a change to Chrome that asks users for permission before making an insecure HTTP connection. The protection is now enabled by default for all users, …

Eye
Safari blocks trackers that turn your email into a tracking ID

Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email …

Google Chrome
Chrome flags malicious commands that scammers pass off as fixes

Google is updating Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode to detect scam websites and warn users when a page tricks them into copying a malicious command. The company introduced …

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Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta

AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. …

Firefox Enterprise
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser

Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web …

Rui Ribeiro
Browser security is where software, data, and AI meet

In this interview with Help Net Security, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler, explains why the browser has become a security problem organizations do not control. Companies do not …

malware
Chaos ransomware msaRAT hides its C2 channel inside a legitimate browser process

Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left in the binary. The …

laptop
Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files

Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine …

Eye
Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior

Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor …

cookie
To counter cookie theft, Chrome ships device-bound session credentials

Cookie theft follows a well-established pattern. Infostealer malware infiltrates a device, extracts authentication cookies, and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled …

Firefox
Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN

Mozilla is adding a free built-in VPN to Firefox, with the feature arriving in Firefox 149 on March 24. Privacy concerns often follow free VPN services, especially when …

Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge 146 adds IP privacy and local network access controls

Microsoft Edge version 146 (Stable) became available on March 13, 2026, bringing updates to tracking protection, IP privacy, and enterprise network security policies. One …

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