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Hyperlink auditing: where has my option to disable it gone?

June 6, 2019 admin Browsers, chrome, disable tracking, Edge, Firefox, HMTL, HTML5, hyperlink auditing, link, opera, ping, privacy, safari, track, tracking, URL

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:59:17 +0000

Hyperlink auditing is not a new way to track website users, but it could become more popular, as many browsers are taking away user options to disable it.

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MalwareBytes Security

Mozilla urges Apple to make privacy a team sport

May 1, 2019 admin advertiser, advocacy, apple, campaign, digital rights, encryption, FBI, Firefox, firefox focus, firefox lockbox, Firefox Send, ID for Advertiser, ID for Advertisers, IDFA, IDFAs, iPhone, Mozilla, Online privacy, petition, privacy, Security world, Silicon Valley, tim cook

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 17:39:28 +0000

Mozilla is currently pushing Apple into placing extra barriers between iPhone users and online advertisers. Why? Because, according to Mozilla, it could work, which could benefit users everywhere.

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Tags: advertiser advocacy Apple campaign digital rights encryption fbi firefox firefox focus firefox lockbox Firefox Send ID for Advertiser ID for Advertisers IDFA IDFAs iPhone mozilla online privacy petition privacy Silicon Valley Tim Cook

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Security Sophos

CVE-2018-18500: write-after-free vulnerability in Firefox, Analysis and Exploitation

April 29, 2019 admin CVE-2018-18500, exploit, Firefox, mitigation, SophosLabs Uncut, Vulnerability

Credit to Author: Yaniv| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:35:40 +0000

Editor’s note: This article is a technical description of a bug discovered by a member of the Offensive Research team at SophosLabs, and how the researcher created a proof-of-concept “Arbitrary Read/Write Primitive” exploit for this bug. The vulnerability was deemed critical by Mozilla’s bug tracking team and was patched in Firefox 65.0. It’s written for […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/oTcYk6i594c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla launches Firefox Send for private file sharing

March 14, 2019 admin cybercrime, Firefox, privacy, private, secure, send, sharing

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:37:51 +0000

Mozilla recently launched Firefox Send, a new, secure way to share files from inside your browser. We discuss the pros and cons of this service.

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Security Sophos

Firefox implementa una tecnología de Tor para evitar publicidad espía

March 13, 2019 admin Actualidad, Firefox, privacidad

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:11:20 +0000

Los usuarios de Firefox pronto obtendrán una nueva funcionalidad de privacidad que les ayudará a evitar publicidad espía, y esta medida le llega directamente desde su primo, el navegador Tor. La nueva protección de la privacidad ayudará a los usuarios de Firefox a bloquear una técnica de monitoreo llamada huella digital (fingerprinting). Las cookies no […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/FdJlR6-xCJk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

¡Actualiza ya! Chrome y Firefox solucionan problemas de seguridad

February 7, 2019 admin Actualidad, Actualizacion, Firefox, Google Chrome

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:38:09 +0000

Nos encontramos ante la primera actualización de navegadores con tanto Google y Mozilla solucionando vulnerabilidades de seguridad tanto en Chrome y Firefox para Mac, Windows, y Linux. Pero en cuanto a la seguridad de Chrome de su versión 72, se trata más de lo que se ha quitado de lo que se ha añadido. Uno […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/EUY2DVW6a8k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Kaspersky Security

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 76

January 31, 2019 admin apple, Facebook, facetime, Firefox, Internet Explorer, news, podcast, privacy, Threats, VPN

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:37:58 +0000

Let’s take a look at a VPN from Facebook that is more than meets the eye, a bug in FaceTime, happy trails to Internet Explorer and good privacy work from Mozilla.

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Crazy Razy, bitcoin thief

January 24, 2019 admin bitcoin, Browsers, chrome, cryptocurrencies, extensions, Firefox, news, plugins, Razy, Threats, trojans

Credit to Author: Pavel Shoshin| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:07:51 +0000

The Razy Trojan secretly installs malicious extensions for Chrome and Firefox to serve phishing links and steal cryptocurrency.