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Google details how it will overturn encryption signals in Chrome

May 21, 2018 admin Browsers, internet, Security

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 13:45:00 -0700

Google has further fleshed out plans to upend the historical approach browsers have taken to warn users of insecure websites, spelling out more gradual steps the company will take with Chrome this year.

Starting in September, Google will stop marking plain-vanilla HTTP sites – those not secured with a digital certificate, and which don’t encrypt traffic between browser and site servers – as secure in Chrome’s address bar. The following month, Chrome will tag HTTP pages with a red “Not Secure” marker when users enter any kind of data.

Eventually, Google will have Chrome label every HTTP website as, in its words, “affirmatively non-secure.” By doing so, Chrome will have completed a 180-degree turn from browsers’ original signage – marking secure HTTPS sites, usually with a padlock icon of some shade, to indicate encryption and a digital certificate – to labeling only those pages that are insecure.

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FAQ: How Edge's Application Guard and isolated browsing work

May 16, 2018 admin Browsers, IDG Insider, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 03:23:00 -0700

Microsoft two weeks ago quietly added a security feature to Windows 10 Pro that initially was available only in the operating system’s most expensive edition.

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Microsoft boosts anti-phishing skills of Chrome, the IE and Edge killer

April 23, 2018 admin Browsers, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 05:02:00 -0700

Microsoft has ceded a major asset of its Edge browser to rival Google by releasing an add-on that boosts Chrome’s phishing detection skills.

The Redmond, Wash. company had little choice, according to one analyst. “Phishing is a huge problem, and people are going to use the browser they use,” said Michael Cherry of Directions on Microsoft. “They’re doing this to protect the Windows ecosystem.”

Dubbed “Windows Defender Browser Protection” (WDBP) the free extension can be added to Chrome on Windows or macOS, and after a post-launch fix, Chrome OS as well. Like the defenses built into Edge, the add-on relies on Microsoft’s SmartScreen technology that warns users of potentially malicious websites that may try to download malware to the machine or of sites linked in email messages that lead to known phishing URLs.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Chrome’s built-in ad blocker

February 22, 2018 admin adblock, adcleaner, ads, advertising, Browsers, chrome, FAQ, google, news, Q&A, Technology, Tips

Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:47:48 +0000

Chrome learns to block ads by itself. What has Google come up with, and how will it help users?

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Chrome 68 to condemn all unencrypted sites by summer

February 13, 2018 admin Browsers, internet, Security

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:10:00 -0800

Google has put a July deadline on a 2016 promise that its Chrome browser would tag all websites that don’t encrypt their traffic.

“Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure,'” wrote Emily Schechter, a Chrome security product manager, in a Feb. 8 post to a company blog.

Google has scheduled Chrome 68 to release in Stable form – analogous to production-level quality – during the week of July 22-28.

Starting then, Chrome will insert a “Not secure” label into the address bar of every website that uses HTTP connections between its servers and users. Sites that instead rely on HTTPS to encrypt the back-and-forth traffic will display their URLs normally in the address bar.

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Web miners in YouTube ads

February 5, 2018 admin advertising, bitcoin, BlockChain, Browsers, cryptocurrencies, fraud, internet, Mining, Security, Threats, Web miners

Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:40:24 +0000

While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.

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Why you should be careful with browser extensions

January 30, 2018 admin Adware, Browsers, chrome, extensions, Firefox, plugins, privacy, Security, Tips

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:00:01 +0000

Browser extensions are handy, but they can also be really dangerous. Here’s what can go wrong and what you can do about it.

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Browser makers build bulwarks to stump Spectre attacks

January 6, 2018 admin Browsers, cyberattacks, iOS, MacOS, Security, Windows 10

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 12:58:00 -0800

Amid the panicked response this week to the news of significant, though not-yet-exploited, vulnerabilities in the vast bulk of the world’s microprocessors, it went almost unnoticed that most browser makers responded by updating their wares in the hope of fending off possible web-based attacks.

The Google-driven revelations – it was members of the search firm’s Project Zero security team who identified the multiple flaws in processors designed by Intel, AMD and ARM – were to go public next week, on Jan. 9, this month’s Patch Tuesday. At that time, a coordinated effort by multiple vendors, from OS developers to silicon makers, was to debut with patches to protect, as best could be done without replacing the CPU itself, systems against flaws grouped under the umbrella terms of Meltdown and Spectre. That plan went out the window when leaks started to circulate earlier this week.

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