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Google launches leaked-password checker, will bake it into Chrome in December

October 4, 2019 0 Comments Browsers, chrome, firefox, Google, Security

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 04:06:00 -0700

Google has launched a web-based hacked-password checker, part of its efforts to bake an alert system into Chrome.

Called “Password Checker,” the service examines the username-password combinations stored in Chrome’s own password manager and reports back on those authentication pairings that have been exposed in publicly-known data breaches.

The web version can be found at passwords.google.com<>, the umbrella site for Chrome users who run the browser after logging in with their Google account, then use that to synchronize data – including passwords – between copies of Chrome on different devices.

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Is $100 million enough to save the web from ads?

September 18, 2019 0 Comments Brave browser, browser privacy, coil, creative commons, firefox, grant for the web, Mozilla, online privacy, Privacy, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:33:50 +0000

Mozilla, Creative Commons and Coil are teaming up to launch a $100m fund to drive out advertising and advocate privacy across the web.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7IGQrwFwo98″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mozilla Private Network VPN gives Firefox another privacy boost

September 13, 2019 0 Comments 1.1.1.1, browser privacy, chrome, Cloudflare DNS, DNS-over-HTTPS, DoH, firefox, Firefox Focus, Google, Mozilla, Organisations, Privacy, vpn, Web Browsers

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

September 12, 2019 0 Comments chrome, Chrome browser, CloudFlare, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Privacy, Web Browsers

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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S2 Ep8: Facebook leak, $5m ransoms, DNS angst – Naked Security Podcast

September 12, 2019 0 Comments facebook, firefox, https, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, Ransomware

Credit to Author: Alice Duckett| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:53:06 +0000

The latest Naked Security Podcast is live – listen now!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TXt7zUSzyX4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google experiments with DNS-over-HTTP in Chrome

September 12, 2019 0 Comments chrome, Chrome browser, CloudFlare, DNS-over-HTTPS, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Privacy, Web Browsers

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

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Mozilla increases browser privacy with encrypted DNS

September 10, 2019 0 Comments browser privacy, DNS-over-HTTPS, encrypted DNS, firefox, Mozilla, Privacy

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:51:10 +0000

Mozilla is about to turn on-by-default an oft-overlooked privacy feature in Firefox.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/luV2NWDhrqw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Chrome bumps ineffective EV certificates off the omnibar

September 10, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Apple Safari, chrome, chromium, EV badge, EV certificate, Extended Validation badge, Extended Validation certificate, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Mozilla, phishing, Safari, security threats, TSL, Web Browsers

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

September 5, 2019 0 Comments ad blocker, Adblocker, Apple Safari, Brave, browser extensions, chrome, chromium, firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, Opera, Organisations, Web Browsers, WebExtensions

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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Chrome users ignoring warnings to change breached passwords

August 20, 2019 0 Comments chrome, firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Google Password Checkup, Have I been pwned, password reuse, password security, security threats, Web Browsers

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=””/>