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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? …

Opera browser now comes with free built-in VPN

April 21, 2016

Opera added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in its newest developer version. All other VPNs for the major desktop browsers are extensions, with most of them based …

Opera Software founder launches Vivaldi, a new browser

April 6, 2016

After more than one year in public development and millions of downloads, Vivaldi today released the first major release of its desktop browser: Vivaldi 1.0. The UI uses React …

Security and privacy issues in QQ Browser put millions of users at risk

March 29, 2016

Citizen Lab researchers identified security and privacy issues in QQ Browser, a mobile browser produced by China-based Tencent, which may put millions of users of the …

New ways to fingerprint Tor Browser users discovered

March 11, 2016

Users who want to remain anonymous online often opt for using the Tor Browser, which hides their real IP address, but there are techniques that (more or less) malicious actors …

Google declares war against deceptive download buttons

February 4, 2016

There’s likely no Internet user that hasn’t, at some point, been tricked into clicking on a deceptive “download,” “install,” or …

Comodo Internet Security installs insecure Chrome-based browser

February 3, 2016

Google researcher Tavis Ormandy has found more vulnerabilities in yet another security solution. This time it’s Comodo Internet Security and, according to this issue …

Microsoft ends support for Windows 8, IE8 through 10: What does this mean for you?

January 13, 2016

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is pushing users towards Windows 10 and its new browser, Microsoft Edge. The way through this is by stop providing technical support and security …

Microsoft warns of imminent end of support for all but the latest Internet Explorer versions

December 7, 2015

Windows users who still prefer Internet Explorer to all other browsers have been urged by Microsoft to update to the latest (and last) version of the browser (v11), as the …