Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:31:00 +0000

Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/U2NXSe69Ao0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:20:44 +0000

Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to v73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/caf79LMUoQo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:07:38 +0000

Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jIAyGMDzDjE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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DNS-over-HTTPS is coming to Windows 10

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 15:22:43 +0000

Microsoft will soon add the ability to use DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS into its networking client.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KwCTrsw95Kk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:34:07 +0000

Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry’s lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/L0V0e9wwPL4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:07:47 +0000

As promised in April, Cloudflare has finally launched Warp, a consumer mobile privacy app that looks a lot like a VPN without actually being one.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/IXc1HLdLZ1Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla Private Network VPN gives Firefox another privacy boost

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:47:28 +0000

Is this week’s test pilot launch of Mozilla Private Network the moment browser VPNs finally become a must-have privacy feature?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MYg9gnQyZ7o” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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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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