Google’s Chrome 80 clamps down on cookies and notification spam

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:14:48 +0000

Version 80 of the Chrome browser is out with some new features designed to save your security and your sanity.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/yYDlj-wH94I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fraud spike prompts Chrome developer lock-out

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:17:56 +0000

Google Chrome extension developers have been left high and dry for weeks as the company struggles to cope with a spike in fraud on the Chrome Web Store.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/LoRzNY2ZY7s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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January 2020 Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 50 bugs

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:15:18 +0000

This month’s big security news from Microsoft is the end of support for Windows 7, and a patch of a cryptographic library<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/wiyw9sHJyLE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome 79 patched after Android WebView app chaos

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:01:28 +0000

Google has rushed out a fix for a bug in the Android version of Chrome that left some app users unable to access accounts or retrieve stored data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/gdacxbn3fBw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ad-blocking companies block ‘unblockable’ tracker

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:45:02 +0000

Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GELDo4RpiU8″ 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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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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Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:36:52 +0000

We look at recent research exploring the threat of clickjacking, along with other solutions considered by site owners and analysts for protecting users against these online attacks.

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