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Major browser makers synchronize end of support for RC4

September 2, 2015

Mozilla, Google and Microsoft have come to an agreement: support for the increasingly vulnerable RC4 cryptographic cypher in the companies’ browsers will end in early …

Mozilla is experimenting with improved Private Browsing

August 18, 2015

Mozilla Foundation is again aiming to boost the privacy of Firefox users, and is beginning to test a new, improved kind of Private Browsing.“All major browsers offer …

Firefox 40: New features and critical security updates

August 12, 2015

Mozilla released Firefox 40. The update includes four critical, seven high and two moderate security updates. The new release now issues a warning if you visit a page known to …

New “Do Not Track” standard released

August 5, 2015

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web …

Chrome extensions easily disabled without user interaction

August 3, 2015

Independent researcher Mathias Karlsson has discovered a vulnerability that can be exploited to disable Chrome extensions without user interaction.Apparently, the bug has …

Microsoft Edge: New browser, new risks for Windows 10

July 31, 2015

Microsoft Edge, the new browser in Windows 10, represents a significant increase in the security over Internet Explorer. However, there are also new potential threat vectors …

Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior

July 28, 2015

The problems with passwords have already been well documented, and the main problem with static biometrics (“something you are”: fingerprints, retina patterns, …

Google Chrome update includes 43 security fixes

July 22, 2015

Google has released Chrome version 44.0.2403.89 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities may allow an …

Google Safe Browsing to start blocking sites with ads leading to unwanted software

July 17, 2015

Ad networks that don’t vet carefully what ads they serve will be the next “victims” of Google’s Safe Browsing service.Since August 2014, Google has …

High severity Internet Explorer 11 vulnerability identified after Hacking Team breach

July 14, 2015

After analyzing the leaked data from last week’s attack on Hacking Team, Vectra researchers discovered a previously unknown high severity vulnerability in Internet …

Firefox blocks Flash plugin by default until zero-days are fixed

July 14, 2015

For the last few years, many security experts have been urging users to evaluate whether they actually need to use Adobe Flash.The platform, once practically unavoidable, now …

Researchers point out the holes in NoScript’s default whitelist

July 1, 2015

Security researchers Linus Särud and Matthew Bryant hav recently discovered some pretty big holes in NoScript, a popular Firefox plugin that prevents executable web content …