Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C'S Privacy-Preserving Attribution API

Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution PPA are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy DP, but current designs lack a principl...

How Just Visiting A Site Could Have Hacked Your iPhone or MacBook Camera

If you use an Apple iPhone or a MacBook, we have a piece of alarming news for you. Turns out merely visiting a website — not just malicious but also legitimate sites unknowingly loading malicious ads as well — using Safari browser could have let remote attackers secretly access your device's...

CVE-2019-18949

SnowHaze before 2.6.6 is sometimes too late to honor a per-site JavaScript blocking setting, which leads to unintended JavaScript execution via a chain of webpage redirections targeted to the user's browser configuration...

PT-2019-11719 · Jenkins · Jenkins Sitemonitor Plugin +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Jenkins SiteMonitor Plugin version 0.5 and earlier Description: The issue concerns the Jenkins SiteMonitor Plugin, which unconditionally disables SSL/TLS certificate validation for the entire Jenkins controller JVM. This means that the plugin...

Security changes and features of Opera 18

News Security changes and features of Opera 18 Share December 4th, 2013 Opera 18 is now out on the stable channel, so we wanted to take a moment to go through some of the new features from a security perspective. Media Access One of the new features is media access. That is; camera and microphone...

Firefox + NoScript

NoScript for Firefox is an open-source add-on that pre-emptively blocks malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust. Because Firefox does not have easily-configured security zones like Internet Explorer, NoScript is needed to...