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The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers.

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You can be tracked online using your Chrome browser extensions

June 21, 2022 0 Comments Browsers, chrome, chromium, extensions, fingerprinting, Privacy

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:45:38 +0000

We look at a new project which uses several techniques to determine which Chrome extensions are being used on a device.

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Billion-dollar search engine industry attracts vultures, shady advertisers, and cybercriminals

January 6, 2020 0 Comments adfraud, advertisements, adware, extensions, hijackers, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, results, search, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, seo poisoning, sponsored

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:04:21 +0000

We look at the ways in which criminals and vultures use less-than-honest tactics to fleece the search engine industry for a piece of its billion-dollar pie.

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Tags: adfraud advertisements adware extensions hijackers potentially unwanted programs PUPs results search search engine search engine optimization search engines SEO seo poisoning sponsored

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

September 2, 2019 0 Comments Android, bug bounties, chrome, data loss, DDPRP, Developer Data Protection Reward Program, extensions, Google, Google Chrome, Google Play, Google Play Security Reward Program, hackerone, Mobile, oauth, security threats, third party apps, vulnerability

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

Google’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 & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bPMJRaBtj94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Browser plug-ins peddled personal data from over 4m browsers

July 26, 2019 0 Comments browser extensions, browsing data, business data, corporate information, data loss, extensions, firefox, Google Analytics, Google Chrome, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:02:52 +0000

Nacho Analytics gathered data like passwords, tax and prescription data from browser add-ons – and those who bought it can keep it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hh3QByv2ph0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>