Tips to protect your data, security, and privacy from a hands-on expert

This post was authored by one of the most active helpers on the Malwarebytes forums who wishes to remain anonymous. Back in the early days of personal computing, perhaps one of the only real concerns was data loss from a drive failure. That risk still exists, but we all face many other threats...

Apple Removes Apps That Expose Encrypted Traffic

Apple has purged its App Store of a number of apps that expose encrypted traffic via the installation of root certificates. Apple has declined to name the apps. “Apple has removed a few apps from the App Store that install root certificates that could allow monitoring of data,” Apple said today i...

Feed protocol with POST bypasses mixed content protections — Mozilla

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa reported that opening a target page using a POST to the url prefixed with the feed: protocol disables the mixed content blocker for that page. This could allow for the risk of a man-in-the-middle MITM scripting attack on pages that accidentally include insecure...