March 26, 2020

Apple iOS 13.4 offers fixes for 30 vulnerabilities

Apple has just announced its latest something for everyone security and feature updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

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February 24, 2020

SSL/TLS certificate validity chopped down to one year by Apple’s Safari

From 1 September 2020, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with more than a year on the clock.

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January 28, 2020

Mozilla bans Firefox extensions for executing remote code

Mozilla’s policy is unambiguous - add-ons must be self-contained and not load remote code, which opens up the user to all sorts of risks.

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January 24, 2020

Google finds privacy holes in Safari’s ITP anti-tracking system

Apple’s much-vaunted Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) could leave users exposed to a raft of privacy issues, including - ironically - being tracked.

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October 15, 2019

Apple says Tencent isn’t snooping on your browsing habits

Apple was quick to allay user concerns this weekend after someone spotted that it was working with Chinese company Tencent to check its users' website requests for malicious URLs.

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October 04, 2019

£3 billion Safari iPhone privacy lawsuit given go-ahead

A UK class action lawsuit against Google, that represents around 5 million iPhone users, can go ahead, according to the UK Court of Appeal.

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May 24, 2019

Safari test points to a future with tracker-free ads

Apple thinks it has come up with a way for advertisers to track how well their ads are doing without compromising user privacy.

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April 09, 2019

Chrome, Safari and Opera criticised for removing privacy setting

Forthcoming versions of the Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera are in the process of removing the ability to disable a long-ignored tracking feature called hyperlink auditing pings.

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March 20, 2019

Firefox 66 now blocks autoplaying audio by default

From Firefox 66 for desktop and Android, due in March, media autoplay of video or audio will be blocked by default.

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