Malicious Package

Overview backupgenuine-updated is a malicious package. This package is part of a malicious npm campaign that abused the registry to distribute ad-supported web proxy applications disguised as educational websites. The package contains web assets intended to bypass network restrictions and generat...

Google's Privacy Sandbox Accused of User Tracking by Austrian Non-Profit

Google's plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb none of your business said the feature can still be used to track users. "While the so-called 'Privacy Sandbox' is advertised a...

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0193-1 Security update for chromium

This update for chromium fixes the following issues: Chromium 115.0.5790.102: stability fix Chromium 115.0.5790.98: Security: The Storage, Service Worker, and Communication APIs are now partitioned in third-party contexts to prevent certain types of side-channel cross-site tracking HTTPS:...

Exploit for Open Redirect in Revive-Adserver Revive_Adserver

CVE-2021-22873 - Revive Adserver Open Redirect Vulnerability...

Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive CNAME Cloaking Technique

With browser makers steadily clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are increasingly embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and privacy. Called CNAME Cloaking, the practice of blurring the distinction between...

Google: Flaws in Apple’s Private-Browsing Technology Allow for Third-Party Tracking

Technology Apple designed for its Safari web browser to protect users from being tracked when they surf the web may actually do just the opposite, according to new research from Google. Google researchers have identified a number of security flaws in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Protection that...

Firefox 69 Now Blocks 3rd-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptominers By Default

Mozilla has finally enabled the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature for all of its web browser users worldwide by default with the official launch of Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The company enabled the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" setting by default for its browser in Ju...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: mozilla-privacy-badger-2018.8.1-1.fc27

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-p arty trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites wit hout your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks tha...

DEF CON 2018: Telltale URLs Leak PII to Dozens of Third Parties

LAS VEGAS – When we order food online, book a plane ticket or purchase seats for a show, we often get an email confirmation with a handy link that, when clicked, takes us directly to our confirmation, with no need to log back into the site. These pages have our confirmation code, the ability to...

Complaint Alleges Hotspot Shield VPN Engages in Deceptive Trade Practices

A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that a free VPN service marketed as a provider of secure and anonymous internet access shares user data and redirects traffic to partners, including online advertising companies. The Center for Democracy and Technology CDT...

Tails 1.4 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...