Starting with Firefox 93, the browser blocks insecure HTTP downloads on encrypted (HTTPS) pages, to keep users safe from potentially unwanted or even malicious downloads. Given that data transmitted over HTTP isn’t protected, attackers able to intercept that data could not only view it, but also tamper with it. Thus, attackers could potentially replace files […]
In 2018, just after Cloudflare turned on Encrypted SNI, Mozilla added support for encrypting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) SNI extension to Firefox Nightly. While aiming to better protect against eavesdropping, SNI was found to leak the identity of visited websites during the initial TLS handshake. An extension to TLS 1.3 and above, ESNI was […]
WASHINGTON – Apple is rolling out new privacy protections for iPhones and iPads, with a new system that makes it impossible for the company to unlock a device even with a warrant. Apple’s privacy terms updated late Wednesday indicate that under its new mobile operating system, iOS 8, the company will not have access to […]
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