CISO's Guide To Web Privacy Validation And Why It's Important

Are your web privacy controls protecting your users, or just a box-ticking exercise? This CISO's guide provides a practical roadmap for continuous web privacy validation that's aligned with real-world practices. – Download the full guide here. Web Privacy: From Legal Requirement to Business...

Is Apple’s Safari browser the last, best hope for web privacy?

What browser do you use? Theres a good chance—roughly one in seven—that its Google Chrome. And even if you prefer a different browser, theres a good chance that youre using something thats based on Google Chrome, such as Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium, Brave, or Opera. After a decade and and a half of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-30884

The issue was resolved with additional restrictions on CSS compositing. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15, watchOS 8, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may reveal a user's browsing history...

[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...

Web Privacy Measurement Framework: OpenWPM

Web Privacy Measurement is the observation of websites and serves to detect, characterize and quantify privacy-impacting behaviors. Applications of Web Privacy Measurement include the detection of price discrimination, targeted news articles and new forms of browser fingerprinting. Although...

Intermediate CA Caching Could Be Used to Fingerprint Firefox Users

The way that Firefox caches intermediate CA certificates could open the door to the fingerprinting of users and the leaking of browsing details, a researcher warned this week. Alexander Klink, a security researcher based in Germany, discovered the issue and reported it to Mozilla in January but...

Google Pays $17 Million to Settle Privacy Violations

Thirty-seven states are claiming a privacy victory against Google and will split a $17 million settlement from the search giant. Google, which generated $2.97 billion in online advertising revenue in the third quarter, was deliberately bypassing default privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser ...

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition It is March Madness at The Hacker News as we release the latest edition of our magazine which gives internet security a thorough look and and a fascinating read. Pierluigi Paganini gives a great interview on the woes of internet security an...

DEFCON Round Up: The Good, The Bad and The Underage

DEFCON, the cash-only, aliases-welcome hacker conference took place in the moral vacuum of Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend, as it has every Summer since 1993. This year there was no shortage of controversial presentations and panel discussions. If you were short the airfare, the $150 entrance fee,...

Mozilla to Fix CSS History Leak Soon

The developers at Mozilla soon will be adding a new privacy enhancement to the Firefox browser that will help prevent attackers and the operators of third-party Web sites from seeing which other sites a user has visited. The technology is meant to address one of the older privacy problems on the...