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According to DuckDuckGo, the desktop browser will work on both Mac and Windows devices. DuckDuckGo has revealed its plans for an upcoming desktop app in its latest blog post in which the company’s CEO Gabriel Weinberg shared details of their plans moving forward. DuckDuckGo’s CEO stated that they are developing a standalone desktop browser for […]
The company maintains that it has to help fund Firefox’s optimization/development, and therefore, it has introduced a new feature called Firefox Suggest in Firefox 93. Mozilla, as we know it, is a non-profit organization. So, it goes without saying that the company has to look for alternate ways to stay profitable and survive in the […]
Threat actors used Google Ads to buy top slots on Google search engine to advertise fake Brave browser websites which delivered malware as the browser’s download file. According to one of the Brave browser’s developers Jonathan Sampson, a fake Brave browser website was featured at the top of Google search results after threat actors exploited […]
Along with a patch for a zero-day bug in the Chrome browser, Google has addressed seven other flaws in its recent update. Google has announced to release of a security update to addresses inherent flaws in its Chrome browser. The patches will be released for the Chrome version for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Part of the […]
Two user favorite browsers are commonly known to be Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Exploiting their demand, a Russian group by the handle of Turla has been attempting to track encrypted traffic of both browsers. With targets identified in Russia and Belarus; they do so by attacking the systems through a remote access trojan (RAT) […]
Mitaka is a browser extension for OSINT search which can: Extract & refang IoC from a selected block of text. E.g. example[.]com to example.com, test[at]example.com to [email protected], hxxp://example.com to http://example.com, etc. Search / scan it on various engines. E.g. VirusTotal, urlscan.io, Censys, Shodan, etc. Features Supported IOC types name desc. e.g. text Freetext any […]
Track This is a new kind of incognito, says Mozilla. It is a fact that everything that you do on the Internet such as using Facebook or Twitter, online shopping or aimlessly surfing the web, is being tracked. Haven’t you noticed that as soon as you search for something, ads relevant to the search start […]
Mozilla has launched a pilot test for its new Android browser ‘Firefox Preview.’ The new app is a redesigned version of Firefox for Android and seems to work 2x faster. This adds to the list of all the different browsers Mozilla has made for Android including Firefox Focus, and Firefox Lite. Firefox Preview has a […]
Google May Limit Ad blockers for Regular Users Amidst Criticism from Consumer Advocates. Google Chrome is perhaps the most popular of all web and mobile browsers at the moment, and this popularity is a result of various user-friendly features that it offers. However, the recent decision of Google to deactivate most of the ad blockers […]
Tor Browser for Android has been officially launched with tons of privacy-focused features. Privacy enthusiasts have every reason to rejoice as the world’s most famous privacy-focused browser Tor browser is now available for Android. So far, it was only available in Beta version and therefore, its scope as far as user access is concerned was […]
Google will soon prompt Android users to choose their preferred default browser and search app on their devices. This decision was announced by Google after fighting legal battles with the European Commission. Last year in July, the search giant was fined $5 billion over alleged antitrust practices in Android after which Google announced a handful of […]
Google is planning to add a feature to Chrome that will prevent downloads initiated from the advertising slots on a website. This feature will block drive-by-downloads through ad frames which lack user activation. “Blocking download in ad frames without user gesture will make the web less abusive and more secure,” said Google developers in a Chrome browser status page. Google also […]
Once again, Mozilla has taken a leaf out of Tor browser’s handbook with the introduction of user anti-fingerprinting technique in Firefox 67 which is scheduled for a release this year in May. Dubbed ‘Letterboxing,’ this method protects against window-size related fingerprinting which is used for profiling and tracking users. For the uninitiated, browser fingerprinting means collection […]
Researcher recently discovered a malicious Fake Browser Update campaign that being delivered a ransomware and banking malware into target computer via fake browser update. Threat actors are spreading this fake browser mostly via compromised websites that are powered by WordPress and also attackers used other hacked CMS websites. Thousands of hacked sites are used for […]
Google is working on a new cache for Chrome which would load web pages faster than before. However, this will be applicable only to the pages you’ve already visited, so revisiting those pages by hitting the back button will take lesser time. Since Chrome caches files that make up a page, so revisiting that page shouldn’t force the browser to retrieve the JavaScripts, CSS […]
Security Researcher discovered a vulnerability in macOS Mojave let malware apps bypass the privacy protection and read the safari browser web history. macOS Mojave has strictly restrict some of the folder by default and it provide special access for very few apps. But the newly uncovered flaw bypass the Mojave privacy protection and allow the […]
We usually ask you not to opt for free VPN’s, especially on your Android device. Only a while ago, we came across a study which revealed that top free VPN apps on the Google Play Store come loaded with malware and tend to leak data. With that being said, you can put faith on free VPN if it’s […]
Online service users can request that their activity not be tracked, although most browsers ignore them Online service users personal information can be a gold mine for many big technological companies. According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, every time we visit a website we activate multiple […]
There is very good news for Mozilla Firefox users. After improving the user experience with tracking protection function offering content blocking features and other changes in Firefox 63, Mozilla is aiming for another significant update in the upcoming version of the browser. The new version of Mozilla Firefox called Firefox 67, which is planned to […]
A new dangerous Mac Malware discovered that stealing the cookies when users visiting a website that belongs to cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service along with saved credentials from Chrome Browers. “Web cookies are widely used for authentication. Once a user logs into a website, its cookies are stored for the web server to know the […]
A China-based security researcher associated with the Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a kernel vulnerability, which he claims to be the second stage of an exploit chain that he was successfully able to jailbreak iPhone X remotely. The researcher Qixun Zhao posted the PoC on Twitter from his Twitter handle […]