Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000

Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTP in Chrome

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:24:10 +0000

Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MXZMT9v3Sj8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome bumps ineffective EV certificates off the omnibar

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:40:23 +0000

Ever notice a missing company name next to the URL address bar? Ever change behavior because of it? Likely not, so bye-bye, useless badge.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WxAmoP9NPKQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Brave accuses Google of sidestepping GDPR

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:24:53 +0000

A senior executive at private browser company Brave has accused Google of using a workaround that lets it identify users to ad networks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lKGgZf-nQcM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox won’t follow Chrome’s anti-ad-blocker changes, says Mozilla

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:27:12 +0000

Mozilla has told developers not to fret – it won’t follow Google in tweaking its browser to be unfriendly to ad blocking software.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/m–la7sLG8k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:51:32 +0000

Google&#8217;s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security &#38; Privacy team&#8217;s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it&#8217;s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bPMJRaBtj94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:34:24 +0000

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HwRH9qy2X3g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome users ignoring warnings to change breached passwords

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:45:15 +0000

If you were told that the password you had just entered was known to have been compromised in a data breach, what would you do?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4HvdcwUNkIs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome Incognito mode detection fix busted by researchers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:43:07 +0000

Remember that Chrome update that stopped websites from detecting Incognito mode? Well, researchers claim to have found a way around it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DYQIHCGdjmU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (July 15 – 21)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:50:35 +0000

A roundup of cybersecurity news from July 15–21, including the Zoom camera vulnerability, Extenbro, Sodinokibi, Magecart, and cybersecurity challenges facing the education sector.

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