In today’s digital world, most of the things that we need are just one click away with our computers and cellphones. As a user, you are constantly monitored. But that is also up to the user. If you want to be monitored less then you should perhaps not enjoy all those services. Is it perhaps too much […]
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In a post on the Chromium Blog on Monday, Google has reported a future feature that will notify users when a site may load slowly, while it will reward those sites that offer fast experiences with a clear badging. “Badging is intended to identify when sites are authored in a way that makes them slow […]
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In the recent audit carried out by the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, or BSI), among the desktop web browsers that were audited — Google’s Chrome 76, Microsoft’s Edge 44 and Internet Explorer 11, and Mozilla’s Firefox 68, only Firefox pass all minimum requirements for mandatory security features. […]
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Mozilla turned the blocking of third-party tracking cookies on by default this week with the launch of Firefox 69. Although the function has been available since October’s Firefox 63, this week’s build is the first to enable the function by default, even for present customers who’re simply upgrading. Tracker blocking Mozilla is clearly not done […]
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In June this year, Mozilla enabled the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) setting by default only for its new users who downloaded a fresh copy of firefox. Leaving old users with options to either enable the new feature manually or wait for the company to activate it for all users. Finally, the wait is over. With […]
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A while back Google officially posted on Twitter about sites that lease out its own subdomains. Google said “We’ve been asked if third-parties can host content in subdomains or subfolders of another’s domain. It’s not against our guidelines. But as the practice has grown, our systems are being improved to better know when such content […]
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Google alerts users that billions of passwords and hundreds of thousands of username and password combinations have been hacked. In February of this year, Google launched a new Password Checkup Extension for Chrome. Warning sign appears every time you log into a website using one of over 4 billion usernames and passwords that have already […]
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Google Chrome developers are taking steps to remove support for fetching document subresources over FTP and rendering of top level FTP resources. Currently navigating to FTP URLs result in showing a directory listing or a download depending on the type of resource. FTP Deprecation Timeline Chrome 78: Start of FTP deprecation. Chrome 80 (Q1 2020): […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On June 26 there was a report from RIPS Technologies who reported that any WordPress version, including the then current 4.9.6 version allows any logged-in user with an Author role or higher to delete files on the server. In a standard WordPress installation any user with a role of Author or higher has the ability […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As we wrote earlier in our newsletters, browsers show a “not secure” warning when visiting unencrypted (non https) forms, eg. when you login to your wordpress wp-admin/ panel, and those warnings will be expanded in the future, which may scare your visitors. This is why we have started a trial with a basic SSL service, which we’ll provide […]
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