HTML5 browser-based, certificateless encryption platform
CertiVox launched the PrivateSky, a service that provides protection for messages, files and other information sent via the cloud through a two-factor authentication process …
When syncing sinks your browser
Google Chrome’s most recent version (v19) introduced a “tab sync” feature. When inspecting this feature from a security perspective we realized that a new …
Facebook Timeline Remover is still alive
You may have seen reports of a Facebook themed “remove my timeline” scam, where users are asked to install a browser extension to roll Facebook back to the way it …
Twitter supports “Do Not Track” option
The news was announced by Ed Felten, the US Federal Trade Commission’s CTO, at a New York Internet Week privacy panel, and Twitter has quickly come out to confirm it: …
Sandbox added to Flash Player running on Firefox
As announced by Peleus Uhley, a senior security researcher within its Secure Software Engineering team, Adobe has outfitted the latest (beta) version of Adobe Flash Player …
Secure browser for Android
Good Technology announced Good Mobile Access (GMA) for Android, a secure mobile browser for Android devices. GMA is a feature of the Good for Enterprise solution that provides …
Facebook users targeted with account-hijacking Chrome extensions
With the steady rise in popularity of both Facebook and Google’s Chrome browser, cyber scammers have turned to targeting users of both. According to Kaspersky Lab expert …
A decade of vulnerabilities and predictions for 2012
Since 2001, Spanish security firm S21sec has been been compiling a database of vulnerabilities detected by themselves and those reported by a great number of sources which …
Microsoft adds new protection mechanisms to IE 10
At the CanSecWest conference held last week in Vancouver, a team of vulnerability researchers from French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft’s Internet …
Apple fixes 83 vulnerabilities in Safari
Apple issued a patch for Safari, fixing 83 vulnerabilities, 72 of which were rated critical. Since Safari and Chrome both use WebKit, the open-source browser engine, it allows …
Teen exploits three 0-days to hack Chrome, earns $60K from Google
The end of this year’s editions of the Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests has been marked by another Chrome hack, executed by a teenage security researcher that goes by the …
Chrome already pwned twice at CanSecWest
The annual CanSecWest conference opened on Wednesday in Vancouver, and before the first session even started, Google’s Chrome was exploited successfully not once, but …