VPN services offer an excellent way to improve privacy while online. To be precise, good VPN services do, while bad ones either leak your data or sell it outright. Mullvad is considered to be one of the best when it comes to online privacy. The Sweden-based provider gets audited by third-parties regularly and offers several…
Category: Security & Privacy
NordVPN says new Whisper protocol circumvents VPN filters, but details are scarce
Using a VPN makes sense in a lot of situations. To protect your data when using networks that you do not have full control over, to protect your data from being sold by your ISP, or to access content that would be blocked otherwise. Services and ISPs may use filters to limit the use of…
Microsoft Edge: scareware blocker is now available
Microsoft has added a new security tool to its Edge browser. Called Scareware Blocker, it is designed to detect and prevent attacks that fall under scareware. Good to know: Scareware attacks use pressure to get users to do something that they should not. Common types are warnings about viruses found or that data has been…
0-click attack promises to narrow down a user’s location geographically
Internet users have a few weapons in their arsenal when it comes to disguising their location. Some have good reasons for wanting to do that, from making sure that activity cannot be traced back to them to watching streaming content that is available only in other regions, or paying less for certain goods and services….
Google Search: mobile results get simplified URL views
The URL, which is the site address of webpages, offers essential information to Internet users. It allows Internet users to verify that they are on the right website or verify links before they are visited. The details: Google announced that it is stripping the address of results on Google Search on mobile so that only…
European Consumer Organization renews criticism of Meta’s “pay-or-consent” policy
Meta’s attempt to appease consumer rights organizations in Europe continues to draw sharp criticism from consumer protection groups. The company introduced a pay-or-consent policy on its main platforms as a response to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The policy gives users of its platforms two options: give Meta consent for advertising and tracking, or…
Google Needs to Strengthen Ad Security After Latest Malvertising Incident
A recent incident has shown another security vulnerability in Google’s advertising platform: advertisers can display URLs of legitimate websites in their ads while redirecting clicks to malicious destinations. This deceptive practice has recently been exploited in a concerning incident. Here is what happened. The popular macOS package manager Homebrew became the target of cybercriminals in…
Mullvad VPN: quantum-resistant tunnels enabled by default
Mullvad announced this week that it has enabled quantum-resistant tunnels in the VPN’s Windows client. The company plans to enable the feature on its mobile clients for Android and iOS in the future as well. This comes just a few months after Mullvad added protections against AI traffic analysis to its VPN. What are quantum-resistant…
Mozilla removes Do Not Track from Firefox and suggests alternative, but there is a better one
Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track feature from Firefox. The idea behind it was simple: inform websites that the user of the browser does not want to be tracked. What looked good on paper did not work well in the real world. Many sites ignored the header, which made it ineffective as a…
New 0-Day Windows vulnerability steals credentials in the simplest way possible
Micro-patching service 0Patch have disclosed a new 0-day vulnerability that affects all recent client and server versions of the Windows operating system. A successful exploit gives the attacker access to a user’s credentials. All that is required for that is that the user opens a folder on Windows that contains a malicious file. 0Patch releases…