April 16, 2022

Yet another Chrome zero-day emergency update – patch now!

The third emergency Chrome 0-day in three months - the first one was exploited by North Korea, so you might as well get this one ASAP.

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February 25, 2022

Did we learn nothing from Y2K? Why are some coders still stuck on two digit numbers?

Calling all website coders: Y2K was then. V1H is now!

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October 29, 2021

Microsoft Edge finally arrives on Linux – “Official” build lands in repos

Microsoft Edge for Linux makes an Official landing.

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January 05, 2021

Chrome browser has a New Year’s resolution: HTTPS by default

If snooping and falsifying web traffic is so easy when plain old HTTP is used, why do we still have HTTP at all?

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February 27, 2020

Brave beats other browsers in privacy study

Users looking for a privacy-focused browser might want to consider Brave first, according to a study published this week.

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February 12, 2020

Mozilla issues final warning to websites using TLS 1.0

From March, the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge browsers will show warnings when users visit websites that only support TLS versions 1.0 or 1.1.

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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.

Naked Security

January 14, 2020

January 2020 Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 50 bugs

This month’s big security news from Microsoft is the end of support for Windows 7, and a patch of a cryptographic library

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December 10, 2019

A Lighter-than-normal Patch Tuesday for December, 2019

There may be a smaller overall tally of things to fix this month than in recent update cycles, but at least one bug is being exploited in the wild

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