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 …
Browsing: Apple Safari
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 around the web. They’re concerned about the new version of Apple’s mobile operating…
When is a bug not a bug? When Microsoft say’s ‘it’s a feature’
Is it a bug or a feature in Microsoft’s Edge browser? As of this writing, the answer to that question remains in dispute between Cisco Talos researchers and the software…
News in brief: Update Flash now; Heartbleed fine; the $1.9m email
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Update Flash now In a move that will surprise nobody Adobe has released a patch for Flash that…
How to remove all your cookies, cached data, and browsing history from Safari
Periodically clearing web browsing history and cookies is an important process that allows web users to optimize their browsing sessions and protect their privacy. That’s why we at Graham Cluley…