Google Adds Password Checkup Feature to Chrome Browser
Google’s new password checkup tool joins other similar services including Have I Been Pwned and Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor.
Source: Threat Post –
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WIBattack – SIM Card Browser Vulnerability let Hackers to Take Control Over Mobile Phones
The WIBattack vulnerability impacts hundreds of millions of telecom subscribers worldwide. The vulnerability comes from the sim card and it doesn’t depend on
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Hackers Remotely Control Email & Browser by Just Sending an SMS and Change the Settings Over the Air
Researchers discovered an advanced SMS phishing attack on some of the targeted Android phone’s that allows a remote attacker to trick victims in
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Google Squashes High-Severity Blink Browser Engine Flaw
The bug could enable remote code-execution, information-siphoning or denial-of-service attacks.
Source: Threat Post – Web Security – Google Squashes High-Severity Blink Browser
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Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency
Google introduced a new initiative that it hopes will fight shady online advertising practices such as digital fingerprinting.
Source: Threat Post –
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Russia Attempted to De-Anonymize Tor Browser: Report
An attempt to crack Tor was one of many projects hackers discovered when they broke into Russian intelligence contractor SyTech.
Source: Dark
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Russian Intelligence Found Trying to Crack Tor Browser by Taking part in the Network
A hacker group compromised Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency and they gained access to terabytes of data stored by the FSB contractor that includes
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Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People
Slack passwords, NSO spyware, and more of the week’s top security news.
Source: Wired – Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of
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Chrome and Firefox Browser Extensions Steals Browsing Web Histories From Over 4M Users
DataSpii a new privacy issue which puts millions of people browsing histories under risk. The term was coined and researched by security researcher
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New Malware Framework Generated More Than one Billion Fraudulent ad Impression Via Browser Extension
Researchers discovered a new malware framework that developed to perform fraudulent Google AdSense impressions by installing a malicious browser extension. In the past
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