Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some websites just can’t take “no” for an answer. Instead of respecting visitors’ choice to block third-party cookies—the identifiers that track browsing activity as a user moves from site to site—they find sneaky ways to bypass those settings. Now, makers of the Brave browser are taking action. Earlier this week, Brave […]
Enlarge / This menacing firefox seems to be on the prowl for unwanted third-party cookies. (credit: Hung Chung Chih via Getty Images) Mozilla’s Firefox 91, released this morning, includes a new privacy management feature called Enhanced Cookie Clearing. The new feature allows users to manage all cookies and locally stored data generated by a particular […]
Enlarge / You don’t need Internet Explorer to view any of these websites—which, unfortunately, doesn’t stop your users from trying it anyway. (credit: TimZillion / Getty Images) If you’re one of the 10 people on the planet who absolutely loves Microsoft’s venerable Internet Explorer browser, you’d better spend quality time with it while you can—Microsoft is […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The prospect of Web users being tracked by the sites they visit has prompted several countermeasures over the years, including using Privacy Badger or an alternate anti-tracking extension, enabling private or incognito browsing sessions, or clearing cookies. Now, websites have a new way to defeat all three. The technique leverages the […]
(credit: Chrome) Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can abuse Chrome’s sync feature to bypass firewalls. Let’s discuss them one by one. First up, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In December, Ars reported that as many as 3 million people had been infected by Chrome and Edge browser extensions that stole personal data and redirected users to ad or phishing sites. Now, the researchers who discovered the scam have revealed the lengths the extension developers took to hide their nefarious […]
Enlarge / Please don’t do this. (credit: Getty Images) If you’re like lots of people, someone has probably nagged you to use a password manager and you still haven’t heeded the advice. Now, Chrome and Edge are coming to the rescue with beefed-up password management built directly into the browsers. Microsoft on Thursday announced a […]
Expand / / Implementing the browser cache into different pools averts complex timing probes that allow you website understand if you are logged into a different. (charge: Mozilla / / Jim Salter) Firefox variant 85 will likely be published from January 2021, and also among its attributes is raised user solitude via advancements in client-side […]
Expand (charge: Getty Images) As many as many people are infected with Chrome along with Edge browser extensions which steal private data and divert users to malware or ad websites, a security company said on Wednesday. Overall, researchers in Prague-based Avast stated they discovered 28 extensions to its Google Chrome along with Microsoft Edge browsers […]
An continuing malware effort is beating the Web with malware which neuters the safety of internet browsers, also includes malicious browser extensions, which also makes other changes to consumers’ computers, Microsoft said on Thursday. Adrozek, since the software maker has now dubbed the malware household, is determined by a sprawling supply network containing 159 particular […]