Brave Search wants to replace Google’s biased search results with yours

Brave Search, Brave Softwares privacy search engine, just turned one. To celebrate, the company says it is moving the search engine out of its beta phase to become the default search engine for all Brave browser users. Goodbye, Google? Not entirely. In May 2015, Mozilla alumni Brendan Eich and...

CVE-2022-20072

In search engine service, there is a possible way to change the default search engine due to an incorrect comparison. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is no needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06219118; Issue ID:...

CVE-2022-20072

In search engine service, there is a possible way to change the default search engine due to an incorrect comparison. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is no needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06219118; Issue ID:...

多款 MediaTek 产品安全漏洞

MediaTek chips are a variety of chips from MediaTek, a division of China's MediaTek Mediatek. A security vulnerability exists in a number of MediaTek products that stems from a search engine service that may change the default search engine...

What is a search engine and why does anyone care which one you use?

An attempt at a simple definition: a search engine is a software system that allows users to find content on the Internet based on their input. The introduction of the major search engines brought about huge changes in the way we use the Internet. There is a wealth of knowledge available for thos...

CVE-2021-22912

Nextcloud iOS before 3.4.2 suffers from an information disclosure vulnerability when searches for sharees utilize the lookup server by default instead of only on the local Nextcloud server unless a global search has been explicitly chosen by the user...

PT-2021-15262

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nextcloud Android App versions prior to 3.16.0 Description The issue is related to information disclosure due to searches for sharees being performed by default on the lookup server instead of only using the local Nextcloud server, unless a...

Nextcloud 信息泄露漏洞

Nextcloud is an open source suite of self-hosted file synchronization and sharing communication application platform from Nextcloud, Germany. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Nextcloud Android App that stems from performing a shared search on a lookup server by default, which...

Billion-dollar search engine industry attracts vultures, shady advertisers, and cybercriminals

Search engines make money by showing users sponsored advertisements—a lot of money. This attracts attention, competition, and plenty who want a piece of the action without doing the actual work or considering the impact to those on the other end of the search bar. Because in the search business,...

QxSearch hijacker fakes failed installs

Recently, one of the more dominant search hijacker families on our radar has started to display some curious behavior. The family in question is delivered by various Chrome extensions and classified as PUP.Optional.QxSearch because of its description in listings of installed extensions, which tel...

Google Will Prompt European Android Users to Select Preferred Default Browser

Google announced some major changes for its Android mobile operating system in October after the European Commission hit the company with a record $5 billion antitrust fine for pre-installing its own apps and services on third-party Android phones. The European Commission accused Google of forcin...

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Google Chrome Javascript Execution Vulnerability

Google Chrome is a popular web browser. A javascript execution vulnerability exists in Google Chrome's default search engine. An attacker is able to manipulate the masterpreferences file on the victim's machine...

USN-2702-3: Firefox regression

USN-2702-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users in the US reported that their default search engine switched to Yahoo. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Tyson Smith,...

openSUSE Security Update : Opera (openSUSE-SU-2013:0273-2)

Opera 12.13 is a recommended upgrade offering security and stability enhancements. -fixed an issue where Opera gets internal communication errors on Facebook -fixed an issue where no webpages load on startup, if Opera is disconnected from the Internet -fixed an issue where images will not load...

WhiteHat Releases Aviator Browser for Windows

The privacy and anonymity of users’ online communications has been at the forefront of many discussions in the tech community and the general public in the last year as more and more information has leaked out about the NSA’s methods and how the agency collects vast amounts of user data. Keeping...