IT security

The Super-Private Tor Browser Gets a Huge Update, But Should You Switch From Chrome?

Chrome wasn’t the only browser to get a visual overhaul this week, because the privacy-focused Tor Browser was also given a new lick of paint, as …

Misconfigured Tor servers revealing owners | SC Media

A RiskIQ researcher is catching some flak on social media for showing how some people using the dark web are misconfiguring their Tor servers …

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Sept. 7

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down the biggest news from the week ending September 7, including a feature story on …

Popular anti-adware app in Apple's Mac App Store, Adware Doctor, surreptitiously steals users' browsing history and sends it to a Chinese domain

​Symantec-secured website shutdown coming soon

In October, Chrome and Firefox users will be blocked from websites still using insecure Symantec/DigiCert TLS certificates. If you don't want to tick …

A Popular Mac App That Stole Users' Browsing History Has Been Removed

Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to "prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac," which, according to …

Take a pinch of autofill, mix in HTTP, and bake on a Wi-Fi admin page: Quirky way to swipe a victim's router password

<b>Vid</b> Beware using your web browser's autofill feature to log into your broadband router via Wi-Fi. If the login attempt is sent over unprotected HTTP, …

Google pushes physical security key

The internet's biggest search engine is going low-tech for its latest product, aimed at helping you secure your files on the Google cloud - and beyond.<p>Following a recent trend of users demanding more physical reassurances that hackers can't access their files or sensitive data, Google is …

British Airways hacked - customer data and details of 380,000 card payments stolen

"We'll take more care of you...?"<p>Author:<p>Published<p>in Data loss 0<p>British Airways, which once liked to describe itself as “The World’s Favourite …

How to manipulate Apple’s podcast charts, and get yourself a top-rated show

Unpopular podcasts are manipulating Apple Podcasts to artificially inflate their ranking, and get themselves a coveted place towards the top of the …

Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users' Passwords

Warning! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The official Chrome extension for the …

The Mighty Whites Podcast, the best Leeds United podcast, is back with Episode 29

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Security Researcher Demonstrates How Remote macOS Exploit Tricks Safari Users Via Custom URL Schemes

- Sep 5, 2018<p>Security researcher Patrick Wardle has demoed an exploit found in macOS that allows malware to be remotely installed an a Mac via the …

Ran Levi interviews Graham Cluley on the Malicious Life podcast

Author:<p>Published<p>in Security threats 0<p>Some time ago Ran Levi of the “Malicious Life” podcast interviewed me about the early days of the anti-virus …

How Google Chrome Spent a Decade Making the Web More Secure

A lot of people may find it hard to remember a time before Chrome. But as Google's browser hits its 10th birthday Tuesday, it's worth noting one …

How to validate salted and hashed password in c#

I used the below method to salt and hash the passwordsSo I get the fully encrypted password from the above, but now I can't login using the passwords …

Comment on Chrome: Flash is almost, almost, almost dead by PsiCop (@PsiCop)

I’ve never understood this impulse to annoy users (on the client side) in the name of coercing developers (on the server side) to get rid of Flash? …

Cryptomininers killing cryptominers to squeeze more out of your CPU

It's a dog-eat-dog world in this rat race.<p>Author:<p>Published<p>in Malware 0<p>If 2017 was the year of ransomware, then this year has surely seen …

Editing my blog's HTTP headers with Cloudflare workers

Hello! For the last 6 months, I’ve had a problem on this blog where every so often a page would show up like this:<p>Instead of rendering the HTML, it …

Graham Cluley one of the speakers at the Data Solutions Secure Forum appears on this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast – Irish Tech News

I talk to Graham Cluley one of the speakers at the Data Solutions Secure Forum. Graham talks about his background, how Anti-Virus software has …

Twitter testing new feature that reveals when you're online ... Who other than stalkers actually want this?

Who other than stalkers actually want this?<p>Author:<p>Published<p>in Privacy, Twitter 0<p>Twitter is testing a new feature that would inform your followers if …

Firefox Will Protect User Privacy By Blocking Tracking Cookies

What you do on the internet is being tracked. Almost every webpage you visit has trackers that log where you go and what you do while you’re there. Third-party ads often contain tracking cookies that allow advertisers to build a picture of your browsing habits as you visit different websites. …

Browser Extensions: Are They Worth the Risk?

Popular file-sharing site <b>Mega.nz</b> is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for <b>Google Chrome</b> so that usernames and passwords …

Firefox to Firewall Cryptomining Malware in Upcoming Browser Updates

The Mozilla Foundation has outlined new features on its Firefox browser to help enhance web performance and protect its users with a default blocker …

Who left open the cookie jar? A comprehensive evaluation of third-party cookie policies

Who left open the cookie jar? A comprehensive evaluation of third-party cookie policies from the Franken et al., <i>USENIX Security 2018</i>This paper won a …

Horizon Tech Blog

Are you struggling with uploading a new certificate to your VMware Identity Manager? Well, you are not alone.<p>But it isn’t that hard. You just need to …

Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox

Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who say that marketers know entirely too much about individuals’ online …

Exporting a Certificate as BASE-64 encoded .cer

I am trying to export a cert without the private key as as BASE-64 encoded file, same as exporting it from windows. When exported from windows I am …

ASP OpenID Connect: Bad Request, request too long

For a website which uses OpenID Connect to authenticate to Azure, I got sometimes the message 'Bad request - Request too long. the size of the …

This is what happens when your SSL certificate expires

What happens when your SSL certificate expires? This.One of the most common questions we get asked is some variation on “what happens when your SSL …