Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:31:32 +0000
The personal data of 257,000 Facebook users, including private messages belonging to 81,000 of them, has leaked online. Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:17:25 +0000
This edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast looks at Google and Mastercard sharing data, a hacked Chrome extension, and some thoughts from Captain Kirk.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:55:08 +0000
Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that any usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and forwarded to a rogue server in Ukraine. This attack serves as a fresh reminder that legitimate browser extensions can and periodically do fall into the wrong hands, and that it makes good security sense to limit your exposure to such attacks by getting rid of extensions that are no longer useful or actively maintained by developers.
Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| A lot of search extensions have been marketed over the year claiming to protect online privacy. Are they worth installing? We take a look at what these plugins actually have to offer. Categories: Tags: chromeextensionsprivacysearchsearchalgowowmovix |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:21:22 +0000
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| Malwarebytes Browser Extensions (BETA) are available in the official web stores for Chrome and Firefox. Read what they can do for you, and try one, if you haven’t already.. Categories: Tags: ad blockersad blockingblockchromeclickbaitfirefoxMalwarebytes Browser Extensionsspeed up browsertech support scams |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:34:38 +0000
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity.
Read moreCredit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:15:15 +0000
Chrome browser extension steals users’ bank data.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 20:38:16 +0000
Microsoft today released a bundle of security updates to fix at least 67 holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software, including one dangerous flaw that Microsoft warns is actively being exploited. Meanwhile, as it usually does on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday — the second Tuesday of each month — Adobe has a new Flash Player update that addresses a single but critical security weakness. First, the Flash Tuesday update, which brings Flash Player to v. 29.0.0.171. Some (present company included) would argue that Flash Player is in itself “a single but critical security weakness.” Nevertheless, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer/Edge ship with their own versions of Flash, which get updated automatically when new versions of these browsers are made available.
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