March Patch Tuesday forecast: In like a lamb, out like a lion
It’s March and up here in the Midwest we have a saying for this early spring month, “In like a lamb, out like a lion.” Often the month of March comes with a …
Criminals can build Web dossiers with data collected by browsers
Everybody knows by now that websites collect information about users’ location, visited pages, and other data that can help them improve or monetize the experience. But …
Chrome will mark HTTP pages as “not secure”
Starting with Chrome 68, which is scheduled to be released in July 2018, Google will explicitly mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”: According to Google’s numbers, 68% …
Flaw in Grammarly’s extensions opened user accounts to compromise
A vulnerability in the Grammarly Chrome and Firefox extensions allowed websites to read users’ authentication tokes and use to them to log in to the users’ …
DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app
DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. …
Browser makers move to mitigate risk of Spectre browser attacks
Apple has confirmed that it has already pushed out security updates for iOS, macOS and tvOS that mitigate the danger of users being affected by Meltdown attacks. (watchOS did …
How to keep your browser and devices safe from cryptojackers
Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts …
Chrome site isolation option offers more security
Chrome 63, which was promoted to the stable release channel on Wednesday, comes with many security fixes and improvements, especially for the enterprise audience. Site …
Stealthy in-browser cryptomining continues even after you close window
In-browser cryptocurrency mining is, in theory, a neat idea: make users’ computers “mine” Monero for website owners so they don’t have to bombard users …
Chrome to start blocking unwanted redirects
“1 out of every 5 feedback reports from Chrome users on desktop mention encountering some type of unwanted content, and we take this feedback seriously when considering …
Malicious Chrome extension steals all data
There’s a glut of malicious Google Chrome extensions out there, but some are more harmful than others. The one that SANS ISC incident handler Renato Marinho has dubbed …
ESET helps Google protect Chrome users from unwanted software
Google has redesigned Chrome Cleanup on Chrome for Windows, and has upgraded the technology it uses to detect and remove unwanted software. A basic antivirus for Chrome …