November 25, 2021

S3 Ep60: Exchange exploit, GoDaddy breach and cookies made public [Podcast]

Latest episode - listen now! Solid cybersecurity advice in plain English.

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November 18, 2021

Github cookie leakage – thousands of Firefox cookie files uploaded by mistake

Be aware before you share! That's a good rule for developers and techies, just as much as it is for social media addicts.

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March 26, 2020

Apple Safari now blocks all third-party cookies by default

Starting in 13.1, advertisers and analytics firms can't track us through browser cookies. Apple says this also kills login fingerprinting.

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February 14, 2020

Cookie-nabbing app could have served users side helping of XSS

A popular GDPR compliance WordPress plugin vendor has patched a flaw that rendered both site visitors and admins vulnerable to XSS attacks.

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February 06, 2020

Google’s Chrome 80 clamps down on cookies and notification spam

Version 80 of the Chrome browser is out with some new features designed to save your security and your sanity.

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January 16, 2020

Google to kill third-party Chrome cookies in two years

Google doesn't want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now. It has promised to make them obsolete later, though. Wait - what?

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September 19, 2017

Apple’s new tracking protection is “sabotage”, claims ad industry

The ad industry is not happy with Apple's latest move to limit how we get tracked around the web.

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August 03, 2016

Massive new study lifts the lid on top websites’ tracking secrets

Researchers at Princeton have captured the clearest picture of third-party web tracking that we've ever seen

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July 21, 2016

Microsoft given 3 months to fix Windows 10 security and privacy

The privacy watchdog says the OS is gobbling excessive data, snooping on browsing without user consent, and weakening security by not limiting PIN entries.

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