Edge is dropping older extensions, affecting popular privacy tools

Microsoft is beginning the retirement of Manifest V2 MV2 extensions in Edge this month, with consumer completion targeted for the end of 2026 and managed-enterprise deprecation in early 2027. Microsoft says that change is justified because 95% of the most-used MV2 extensions in the Edge Add-ons...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: icecat-115.22.0-2.rh1.fc40

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser. Extensions included to this version of IceCat: LibreJS GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in the article "The JavaScript Trap" of Richard Stallman. JShelter: Mitigates potential threats from JavaScript, including...

Can search extensions keep your searches private?

One of the most common things most of us do on the Internet is search, whether we are looking up the price of the latest gadget or we need to find the address of that great restaurant recommended by a friend. The dizzying number of Google search queries per second more than 40,000, on average tel...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: icecat-52.0.1-5.fc25

GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR. Extensions included to this version of IceCat: LibreJS GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap. SpyBlock Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : NetworkManager on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was discovered that NetworkManager would set device MTUs based on MTU values received in IPv6 RAs Router Advertisements, without sanity checking the MTU value first. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to create a denial of service attack, by sending a specially crafted IPv6 RA packet to...

RHEL 7 : NetworkManager (RHSA-2015:2315)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2315 advisory. NetworkManager is a system network service that manages network devices and connections. It was discovered that NetworkManager would set...