Collaborate Disseminate
A new simple but dangerous strain of Android malware has been found in the wild that steals users’ authentication cookies from the web browsing and other apps, including Chrome and Facebook, installed on the compromised devices.
Dubbed “Cookiethief” b… Continue reading Android Cookie-Stealing Malware Found Hijacking Facebook Accounts
Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referra… Continue reading Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme
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 Protec… Continue reading Firefox 69 Now Blocks 3rd-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptominers By Default
In this digital era, the success of almost every marketing, advertising, and analytics company drives through tracking users across the Internet to identify them and learn their interests to provide targeted ads.
Most of these solutions rely on 3rd-pa… Continue reading Kaspersky Antivirus Flaw Exposed Users to Cross-Site Tracking Online
As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across… Continue reading Firefox Web Browser Now Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies By Default
At the company’s I/O 2019 developer conference, Google has announced its plan to introduce two new privacy and security-oriented features in the upcoming versions of its Chrome web browser.
In an attempt to allow users to block online tracking, Google… Continue reading Google Chrome to Introduce Improved Cookie Controls Against Online Tracking
Firefox is to stop using the privacy-busting canvas-based browser fingerprinting that allows websites to track users’ online activities. Continue reading Firefox Bolsters Privacy, Pulls Plug on Browser Canvas Fingerprinting