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Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency

22nd August 2019Lindsey O Donnell

Google introduced a new initiative that it hopes will fight shady online advertising practices such as digital fingerprinting. Source: Threat Post – [...]

Russia Attempted to De-Anonymize Tor Browser: Report

23rd July 2019Dark Reading Staff

An attempt to crack Tor was one of many projects hackers discovered when they broke into Russian intelligence contractor SyTech. Source: Dark [...]

Russian Intelligence Found Trying to Crack Tor Browser by Taking part in the Network

23rd July 2019GURUBARAN S

A hacker group compromised Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency and they gained access to terabytes of data stored by the FSB contractor that includes [...]

Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People

20th July 2019Emily Dreyfuss

Slack passwords, NSO spyware, and more of the week’s top security news. Source: Wired – Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of [...]

Chrome and Firefox Browser Extensions Steals Browsing Web Histories From Over 4M Users

20th July 2019GURUBARAN S

DataSpii a new privacy issue which puts millions of people browsing histories under risk. The term was coined and researched by security researcher [...]

New Malware Framework Generated More Than one Billion Fraudulent ad Impression Via Browser Extension

19th July 2019BALAJI N

Researchers discovered a new malware framework that developed to perform fraudulent Google AdSense impressions by installing a malicious browser extension. In the past [...]

Security Snapshot: OS, Authentication, Browser & Cloud Trends

16th July 2019Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor

New research shows cloud apps are climbing, SMS authentication is falling, Chrome is the enterprise browser favorite, and Android leads outdated devices. [...]

Vuln: Xiaomi Mi6 Browser CVE-2019-13322 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

12th July 2019CW Enterprises

Xiaomi Mi6 Browser CVE-2019-13322 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Source: Security Focus – Vuln: Xiaomi Mi6 Browser CVE-2019-13322 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability [...]

Tor Browser 8.5.3 Released With Fixes for Critical Zero-day Security Update in Firefox

23rd June 2019BALAJI N

Tor Browser 8.5.3 released with the fixes for critical Sandbox Escape zero-day vulnerability in Firefox, and it results in executing arbitrary code on [...]

Tor Browser Issues Update for Critical System Takeover Flaw

20th June 2019Tara Seals

The update patches critical flaw (CVE-2019-11707), a type confusion vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox code that Tor uses. Source: Threat Post – [...]