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Mozilla enters court fight over FBI hacking technique

13

May

2016

Mozilla is pressing the government to disclose a possible security vulnerability in its Firefox web browser that helped the FBI track down visitors to a child pornography site. The vulnerability is at the center of a case in the Western District of Washington. Mozilla filed a brief on Wednesday with the court asking that the […]

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Thehill 0 Comments

Free comes with a price: adware can take over your device

19

Feb

2016

Recent news reports, for example, warned users that they should get rid of adware apps Mintcast 3.0.1 and Shell&Services, which not only display unwanted pop-up ads, but also switch off safe browsing in Firefox. Of course this opens up your computer to all kinds of online threats. Called PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) in security lingo, […]

Category Threats & Malware Virus & Malware Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

Malware replaces browser with a dangerous Chrome lookalike

20

Oct

2015

Security researchers have discovered a fiendish form of #browser malware that stands in for your copy of Google Chrome and hopes you won’t notice the difference. As reported by PCRisk, the “#efast browser” works by installing and running itself in place of Chrome. It’s based on Google’s Chromium open-source software, so it maintains the look […]

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