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Final warning: Popular browsers will soon stop accepting SHA-1 certificates

November 17, 2016

Starting with Chrome 56, planned to be released to the wider public at the end of January 2017, Google will remove support for SHA-1 certificates. Other browser makers plan to …

With Firefox 50, Mozilla plugs many security holes

November 16, 2016

Firefox 50 is out, and it includes security fixes for 3 critical, 12 high, 10 moderate, and 2 low severity issues, as well as many usability improvements. Two of the critical …

Firefox to prevent sites from tracking users by checking their battery status

November 3, 2016

Version 52 of the popular Firefox browser will no longer allow websites to access the Battery Status API and the information it can provide about the visitor’s device. …

Chrome will start labeling some HTTP sites as non-secure

September 9, 2016

Slowly but relentlessly, Google is pushing website owners to deploy HTTPS – or get left behind. The latest announced push is scheduled for January 2017, when Chrome 56 …

Google Chrome users targeted by tech support scammers

August 29, 2016

Google Chrome users, beware: tech support scammers are misusing helpful browser features to impersonate Microsoft and to bombard users users with pop-ups. In the first …

Beware of browser hijacker that comes bundled with legitimate software

August 12, 2016

Lavians, a “small software vendor team,” is packaging its offerings with a variant of browser-hijacking malware Bing.vc. The company sells and offers for free …

Amazon Silk browser removes Google’s default encryption

July 26, 2016

Google’s good intentions of keeping searches made via its search engine protected through default encryption have been stymied by Amazon. A bug in the Amazon Silk …

Why the Vivaldi browser wants you to control everything

July 12, 2016

The number of Internet users has been growing steadily, and now stands at nearly 3.5 billion. And despite the growing popularity of mobile devices and specialized apps, the …

Chrome vulnerability lets attackers steal movies from streaming services

June 27, 2016

A significant security vulnerability in Google technology that is supposed to protect videos streamed via Google Chrome has been discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion …

Bug in Chrome’s PDF reader allows arbitrary code execution

June 9, 2016

Vulnerabilities in software often arise from faulty implementations of elements developed by other code writers. Take for example CVE-2016-1681, the heap-based buffer overflow …

Google Chrome update includes 15 security fixes

June 3, 2016

Google has released Chrome 51.0.2704.79 to address multiple vulnerabilities for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote …

Opera browser’s VPN is just a proxy, here’s how it works

April 22, 2016

Yesterday, Opera announced they’ve added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in the latest developer version of their browser. Sounds great, doesn’t it? …