Tag: Browser

January 16, 2024

Opera, a popular Chromium-based browser, was found carrying a vulnerability that would allow hackers to install pretty much any file on both Windows and macOS operating systems. The vulnerability was discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Guardio Labs, who notified the […]

December 21, 2023

Mozilla last week revised its position on a web security technology called Trusted Types, which it has decided to implement in its Firefox browser. By so doing, the browser biz will help reduce a longstanding form of web attack that […]

November 29, 2023

Reading Borough Council has securely restored its planning portal after facing criticism for recommending questionable tech security practices to users. Before the fixed version went live this morning, the English local authority’s online planning application portal had been offline due […]

September 27, 2023

There is a flaw in GPU units from all major manufacturers that allows hackers to read sensitive data displayed in browsers, a new research paper argues. The vulnerability in question is called GPU.zip, and allows for cross-origin attacks. In essence, […]

July 10, 2023

Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. “We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run […]

March 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, cybersecurity and privacy have become major concerns for internet users. With the increase in cyber attacks and data breaches, it is vital to protect your online privacy and security. One way to do this is by […]

August 19, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is a great way to keep cybercriminals at bay, but some are apparently getting pretty good at bypassing this type of protection by stealing application and browser session cookies. Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos say they’re observing an increasing […]

February 25, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems. “Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox […]

May 27, 2020

GOOGLE’S CHROME WEB browser is the world’s most popular way for people to navigate the web. But it’s far from perfect. Google’s dominance in online advertising means it slurps up plenty of your browsing data, which is used to show […]

March 19, 2020

MICROSOFT EDGE RECEIVED the lowest privacy rating in a recently published study that compared the user information collected by major browsers. Yandex, the less-popular browser developed by the Russian Web search provider Yandex, shared that dubious distinction. Brave, the upstart […]

November 12, 2019

Browsers. You can’t use the Internet without them, but they introduce insecurity and instability to the computing environment. Browsers are the operating system of cloud computing and protecting them will become more and more important. Just last week, Google came […]

October 4, 2019

Researchers have discovered a new malware strain, dubbed Reductor, that allows hackers to manipulate Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) traffic by tweaking a browser’s random numbers generator, used to ensure a private connection between the client and server. Once infected, […]

June 11, 2019

Mozilla Corporation is launching a premium version of the Firefox browser that will tout improved security features such as virtual private network and secure cloud storage, according to CEO Chris Beard. In a Friday interview with German media publication T3N, […]

April 22, 2019

Microsoft Office has become cybercriminals’ preferred platform when carrying out attacks, and the number of incidents keeps increasing, Kaspersky Lab researchers said during the company’s annual conference, Security Analyst Summit, in Singapore. Boris Larin, Vlad Stolyarov and Alexander Liskin showed […]

April 22, 2019

Google announced that it will soon block login attempts from embedded browser frameworks in an effort to prevent man-in-the-middle (MitM) phishing attacks. The tech giant says phishing attacks that involve traffic interception are difficult to detect when an embedded browser […]

January 31, 2019

A recently discovered piece of Mac malware is targeting browser cookies associated with mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites, as well as personal user information, Palo Alto Networks security researchers say. Based on the OSX.DarthMiner malware and dubbed CookieMiner, […]

September 24, 2018

A security researcher discovered a bug affecting Firefox on Mac, Linux, and Windows that could crash the browser and in some cases the underlying OS. The security researcher Sabri Haddouche from Wire discovered a bug that affects Firefox on Mac, […]

September 11, 2018

Exploit acquisition firm Zerodium has disclosed a NoScript vulnerability that can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the Tor Browser even if the maximum security level is used. Zerodium disclosed the flaw and provided instructions on how it […]

June 7, 2018

The US Department of Defense just published its cloud browser strategy. What’s yours? On June 5, 2018, the Defense Information Systems Agency released an unclassified request for information (RFI) outlining its intent to procure a cloud browser for 3.1 million […]

May 16, 2018

Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to take screenshots of entire pages or sections of pages and save them to the cloud, but is making them publicly accessible by default, an ethical hacker has discovered. Introduced in the browser last fall, […]