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Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips

October 6, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, privacy, safari, Security

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct.

Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. Remember that 2012 story about how Target could tell a teenager was pregnant before her parents knew, based on her online activities? That is the norm today. Google and Facebook are the most notorious commercial internet spies, and among the most pervasive, but they are hardly alone.

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Long lost @ symbol gets new life obscuring malicious URLs

May 17, 2022 admin "@" symbol in url, @ delimiter, @ in url, Brave, chrome, Firefox, microsoft, motti elloul, opaque string, pale moon, perception point, phishing, rfc 3986, safari, Social engineering, Thomas Reed, Vivaldi, weird url syntax

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:41:32 +0000

A little-used feature of web addresses is being used to obfuscate malicious phishing URLs.

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Why you need to always update Safari on iPhone | Kaspersky official blog

April 4, 2022 admin 0days, Browsers, chrome, Firefox, iOS, iPhone, safari, Tips, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:34:04 +0000

Why iPhone and iPad users need to always update Safari and WebKit even if they use Chrome, Firefox or any other browser.

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Apple fixes Mac bug that could have allowed takeover of webcams and browser tabs

February 2, 2022 admin apple, Exploits and vulnerabilities, MacOS, popup, safari, uri, URL, uxss

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:43:49 +0000

A researcher discovered a way to gain control of both webcams and any open session in Safari. How did they do it?

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: Apple macOS popup safari URI url UXSS

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How to block cookies in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge | Kaspersky official blog

February 2, 2022 admin Browsers, chrome, cookies, Edge, Firefox, privacy, safari, settings

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:49:13 +0000

We explain how best to block cookies in Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, and why you need to.

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Mac threat detections on the rise in 2019

December 16, 2019 admin browser extensions, Mac, Mac adware, mac malware, mac telemetry, mac threat detections, mac threats, newtab, potentially unwanted programs, pups, safari

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:40:06 +0000

For the first time ever, Mac threats broke into Malwarebytes’ top five overall detections of 2019. Take a look at this and other telemetry that shows Mac malware is certainly on the rise.

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Tags: browser extensions Mac adware mac malware mac telemetry mac threat detections mac threats newtab potentially unwanted programs PUPs safari

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Getting rid of browser notifications

July 23, 2019 admin Browsers, chrome, Edge, Firefox, notifications, opera, privacy, safari, Tips

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:44:54 +0000

We explain how not to drown in the stream of annoying browser push notifications — or even kiss them goodbye.

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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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Tags: browsers chrome disable tracking Edge firefox HMTL HTML5 hyperlink auditing link opera ping safari track tracking url