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Google launched an ad blocking experience in Chrome earlier this year, and now the firm is expanding on those efforts with Chrome 71. “Starting in December 2018, Chrome 71 will remove all ads on the small number of sites wi...
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella reaffirmed his firm’s commitment to privacy this weekend in an interview with the UK’s Times after its Future Decoded conference. The firm spoke about how it would be using data derived...
by Surur
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Around one in 20 desktop web browsers need to start worrying, as security researcher Yushi Liang is preparing to release a Zero-Day exploit for the Edge browser which allows Remote Code Execution, including escaping the Edge sand...
by Surur
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It turns out an important UWP API in Windows 10 has a bug which mean malicious developers are free to roam all over your hard drive and steal any of your data. UWP apps are meant to be safer due to being sandboxed and confined to ...
by Surur
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In the latest Cumulative Update, Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Windows 10 discovered and reported by Kaspersky in August 2018 which was being used in very targetted attacks in the middle east. Microsoft writes: CVE-201...
by Surur
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Bloomberg has recently been embroiled in controversy after they accused industry supplier Supermicro of supplying motherboards infected with compromised chips which could be used to steal data from servers from companies such as A...
by Pradeep
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At Ignite 2018 today, Microsoft announced several new security features in its products to protect user data. The main highlight is the support for password-less logins in Azure-AD based apps. You can read more about it here. Micr...
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On Friday, Apple will release the iPhone XS and XS Max with the XR coming in October. All these phones will partake in the annual ritual of being praised for their Appleness and criticised for the price, as per usual. These device...
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App stores, especially Apple’s, have a reputation regarding security. That reputation took a hit over the weekend with the revelation that some of the most popular Mac App Store apps were gathering ng up user data and remo...
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In what seems like a glaring oversight, Google has not supported fingerprint of any form of biometric authentication on its Chrome OS platform. While competing devices from Apple and Microsoft have long since let users choose to u...
by Surur
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We wrote last week of a frustrated security researcher revealing a new zero-day bug for fully-patched Windows 10 PCs which would allow any software running on your PC to gain system-level privileges. The bug is a local exploit (i...