Update now! Adobe Flash has another critical security vulnerability
Adobe’s Flash Player for Windows, Mac and Linux has a critical vulnerability that should be patched as a top priority. Flash has a dismal …
How Just Opening A Site In Safari Could Have Hacked Your Apple macOS
Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could …
Update now! Apple releases security fixes for iOS, MacOS, Safari, others
If you own any kind of Apple device or software, you may want to check to see if you have an update waiting for you. This week Apple pushed …
iOS 12 is here: these are the security features you need to know about
One year to the day after iOS 11 appeared, Apple yesterday released its replacement, iOS 12. There’s always a lot of fuss about new …
Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?
You take your web browser with you wherever you go on the web. Amongst other things, it knows what you see and when; it tags along when you …
The security changes you can expect in iOS 12
This fall – very likely in September – Apple will unveil the next major release of its mobile operating system, iOS 12. The beta …
Adblocking and browser privacy can be bypassed, researchers find
Virtually every desktop browser and adblocker can have its ad-tracking privacy or security bypassed by at least one software technique, a …
Chrome and Firefox pull history-stealing browser extension
One minute that favourite browser plug-in is your friend, the next it’s quietly turned into a privacy “Chernobyl” that’s profiling …
Silence! Chrome hushes noisy autoplaying videos
On Tuesday, Google launched Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. With the new browser comes blissful …
Apple burns the HSTS super cookie
Want to know something cool? Quietly and without fanfare Apple has rolled out a change to its Safari browser that munches one of the …
Multiple Zero-Day Bugs in Apple Safari Exposed at Pwn2Own 2018
A total of $267,000 was awarded to security researchers at the two-day event, for disclosing new vulnerabilities in operating system and …
Hackers beat Firefox and Safari to earn $105K at Pwn2Own
Zero-day exploits earned hackers $105,000 in total on Thursday during the second day of the Pwn2Own contest in Vancouver, British …
Look-Alike Domains and Visual Confusion
How good are you at telling the difference between domain names you know and trust and impostor or look-alike domains? The answer may …
Apple offers another Meltdown fix for Mac users…
For Apple users worried about the Spectre and Meltdown CPU security vulnerabilities – what we’ve been collectively referring to as …
Sensor data can be used to guess your PIN, unlock your phone
Turns out that those sensors in your smartphone that do all kinds of cool, magical things like give you directions, find your friends, let …
Google sued over iPhone ‘Safari Workaround’ data snooping
Did you use an iPhone in the UK between 1 June 2011 and 15 February 2012? If you did, you’re one of an estimated 5.4 million people who …
Smart Lock and iCloud Keychain – password managers for the rest of us
Here at Naked Security, we’ve been banging the drum for password managers for a long while now, and there are a number of strong examples …
Apple’s new tracking protection is “sabotage”, claims ad industry
The ad industry is gnashing its teeth over Apple’s latest move to limit how we get tracked…