Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in “about: pages”, in an effort to protect its users from code injection. These are the gateway to sensitive preferences, settings, and statics of the…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is talking about the “post-cookie” web world and proposes a digital token technology instead of cookies. IAB is the trade group that represents the online ad industry and media companies and proposes the creation of a digital…
After exposing CEO‘s account, private tweets, passwords, and personal data for hundreds of thousands of users, Twitter admitted a new security problem.
In a blog post, the company announced that the phone numbers and/or email addresses provided by its users for the…
Indian users were third most exposed to Formjacking attacks, after those from US and Australia, according to a recent survey conducted by Symantec. The company announced it has blocked over 2.3 million formjacking attacks all around the world, in the second quarter of this…
A former Yahoo software engineer admitted in court that he had hacked the accounts of thousands of users.
Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to accessing about 6,000 Yahoo accounts. He said he searched for private and personal records, mainly sexual…
Google's New Internet Encryption Protocol, under antitrust examination
September 30, 2019
The congressional antitrust investigators are concerned that Google’s new Internet Protocol might give the company an unjust competitive advantage, according to CNET. Investigators try to find out if Google will use the collected data through this protocol for any…
Google only has to remove links from the search results only in Europe, after a request. This is the verdict of the European Court of Justice, after the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) from France asked the giant to remove search result…
27 countries signed pledge to clean up the cyberspace that became the digital equivalent of the old Wild West, in a joint statement at the United Nations.
The draft resolution II on “Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international…
Facebook announced it suspended tens of thousands of apps, as a result of its App Developer Investigation, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Last year it was revealed that the political consultancy managed to obtain the personal data of over 50 million Facebook app…
Google removed two extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The fully functional ad blockers were caught trying do deceive users by using names of other well-known ad blocker extensions.
“AdBlock” by “AdBlock, Inc” and “uBlock” by…
