Google announced less intrusive ads in videos both in its Chrome browser and on YouTube. Thus, Chrome will block ads that play in the middle of videos up to 8 minutes long. Also, YouTube won’t show those ads in the first place.
The decision comes as Google wants to…
Google announced what the industry have feared for the last year – it will kill the cookies. This means that the Chrome browser will no longer support third-party cookies. The transition will take two years.
The move will affect all web users at some extent. Still, the…
Google removed 1.700 infected apps from its Play Store. The decision came after the company discovered the apps were carrying the Joker (or Bread) malware. This malware is involved in lobbying customers with SMS billing fraud. All these apps were all removed, even before…
Parental control for kids is a tricky business in today’s time. For parents, it is a full-time dedicated job, and for kids, it’s full-time restraints!
However, what makes us discuss this topic is a constant conflict between kids and parents about the increasing…
Most malicious ads target Windows users, according to statistics. Chrome OS is the second on the list, while Linux is the last. Devcon, a cyber-security company, discovered that 61% of the malicious ads observed by the company between July and November aimed Windows users.
Mispadu banking trojan uses a McDonald’s malvertising tactic to steal payment-card data and online banking information. Mispadu, which was written in Delphi, targets Brazil and Mexico. It uses pop-up windows and contains backdoor functionality.
Ads and email messages…
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…
Eight catastrophically leaky browser extensions were discovered by researcher Sam Jadali, according to FeedSpot
Together with a Washington Post columnist, Geoffrey A. Fowler, they discovered a disastrous situation about privacy, dubbed DataSpii, to add-ons or plug-ins of…
