Firefox will hide the annoying notification popups, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020. This comes after the experiment Mozilla ran in April to see how users interact with notifications. Also, Mozilla looked at different ways of blocking notifications from being…
The padlock, a symbol of trust, is sometimes used by new types of malware to hide behind it. The green icon that you see at the top of your browser when visiting a website via a connection encrypted with a valid SSL/TLS certificate should not be mistaken with the…
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…
Who would have thought Google would be fined a hefty amount for target marketing.
But if sources are to be believed, YouTube has been collecting kid’s information without a parent’s consent.
Federal Trade Commission has fined Google a sum of $170M after finding…
The global advertising market has grown more than 15 times since 2017. These are huge numbers that affect each one of us, including the way we should protect our privacy. According to eMarketer, ”In 2019, worldwide digital ad spending will rise by 17.6%, to $333.25…
Google has come out with the much-awaited news of a separate YouTube site for kids. This news comes as a consequence of an accusation on Google for violating a kid’s privacy policy.
If you are familiar with the popular YouTube Kids’ app, then this site will be a browser…
A dangerous trojan replaced a popular VPN. The cybercriminals cloned the genuine website in order to trick visitors into downloading the dangerous trojan.
Researchers at Doctor Web discovered a harmful banking trojan disguised as the popular virtual private…
Google decided to increase the minimum rewarding amount for the Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program, according to TechCrunch. At this moment, the security researchers may receive up to 5,000 dollars on baseline reports, but Google announced the amount to be 15,000 dollars…
Malware is a software that is created for malicious purposes and although it is usually associated to devices, it can be also used to attack and infect the websites that you usually browse through. This kind of software is created with the purpose of stealing personal…
