May 01, 2020

Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

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March 30, 2020

Chrome may bring back ‘www’ with option to show full URLs

Google's doing so grudgingly: it still thinks that showing too much will confuse users trying to assess a site's security.

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March 20, 2020

COVID-19 disruption delays release of Chrome version 81

It’s the COVID-19 shortage nobody expected - not toilet rolls, tinned goods or headache pills this time but Google software engineers.

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March 11, 2020

Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation

Brave is testing a new defence against fingerprinting: confusing algorithms by randomising some of the data they collect.

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February 28, 2020

Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US

Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.

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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 27, 2020

Chrome 80 encryption change blocks AZORult password stealer

Evidence is emerging that a change made to Chrome 80 might have disrupted the popular data and user profile stealing malware AZORult.

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February 17, 2020

Google pulls 500 malicious Chrome extensions after researcher tip-off

Google has abruptly pulled over 500 Chrome extensions from its Web Store that researchers discovered were stealing browsing data and executing click fraud and malvertising.

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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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