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Mozilla mulls early cutoff for SHA-1 digital certificates
In light of recent advances in attacks against the SHA-1 cryptographic function, Mozilla is considering banning digital certificates signed with the algorithm sooner than …
Tech support scammers put Mac owners in crosshairs
Technical support scammers have begun targeting Mac owners, a security researcher said today, adding them to much larger pool of potential victims running Windows …
Firefox’s tracker-killing private browsing mode hits beta
Mozilla’s all-new ”stealth mode” for Firefox is one step closer to becoming a standard feature of the popular web browser. The latest Firefox Beta …
Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin, just got a big nail driven into its coffin. Mozilla blocked Flash by default …
Latest Flash hole already exploited to deliver ransomware – update now!
Are you still using Flash in your browser? If so, make certain you’ve got the latest update from Adobe, even though it only came …
New Firefox version says “might as well” to encrypting all Web traffic
Developers of the Firefox browser have moved one step closer to an Internet that encrypts all the world’s traffic with a new feature that …
How Secure Is Android if Google Won’t Patch?
Google’s Android mobile operating system takes a lot of criticism from security researchers for various security flaws and weaknesses. This week, Rapid7 security researcher …
Apple dumps SSL 3.0 for push notifications due to Poodle flaw
Apple said Wednesday it will stop supporting the encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 for its push notifications service in response to a vulnerability …
Net neutrality opponents are taking a page out of their rivals’ grassroots playbook
If there’s one thing the Internet is good at, it’s galvanizing Web users to action with a good David-and-Goliath story. For months, advocates of …
Social engineering campaign leads to malicious Chrome extension
Security experts have discovered social engineering ruse that leads to a malicious Google Chrome extension that lures victims in a click fraud campaign. Researchers …
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