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Many sites support comments. You can leave a comment under videos, articles, or in forums to add your take on something, add something that you think is missing, or, most likely, to correct the original author. Using public comments or posts is not a new invention. In fact, it goes all the way back to…
Google released a new security update for its Chrome web browser that fixes three security issues, including one that is exploited in the wild. The security issue affects the desktop versions of Google Chrome and the Android version. Desktop users may select Menu > Help > About Google Chrome to install the security update immediately….
Google released a security update for its Chrome web browser for the desktop and Android that fixes several security issue. One of the issues is rated high and already exploited on the Internet according to Google. The details: The security update changes the version of the Chrome web browser to the following versions: Google lists…
Captchas can be quite annoying, especially if your input is not accepted or if they do not work at all. You may now add malicious captchas to the list of annoyances. Proton Mail published one example on X recently. The malicious captcha tries to convince unsuspecting users to run a command on their Windows machines….
For advertisers, it may seem like the perfect fit. Integrate a technology into mobile apps, games for the most part, that identifies ads playing on television to push similar ads on mobile, even if the mobile is not used actively. News about such a system comes just days after LG announced the integration of AI…
The developers of the anonymizer Tor Browser have released a new version for all supported operating system. The big feature in this release is the introduction of Connection Assist on Android. The feature, which has been available in Tor Browser for desktop operating systems for quite some time, aims to help users establish a connection…
Rufus, one of my favorite open source tools, is now available in a new version. Rufus 4.7 is a security release that includes new features and non-security fixes. The developer fixed a side-loading vulnerability in the application that allowed an attacker to load a malicious DLL with escalated privileges. For this to work, the attacker…
Google announced support for end-to-end encrypted emails on Gmail for organizations and later this year for end users last week. This allows Gmail users to encrypt emails so that only the recipient can read them. Gmail is far from being the first email provider to offer such a feature. Proton Mail, for instance, supported end-to-end…
A new version of the password manager KeePass for Windows is now available. KeePass 2.58 is the first release of the password manager in 2025. The last version, KeePass 2.57.1, was released in October 2024. The update is a smaller one. It introduces a few minor features and changes. Good news is that no security…
Google has been hard at work to establish Manifest V3 as the new and only set of rules for Chrome extensions. Report suggest that Google has shifted the process into a higher gear and is disabling classic extension support for more Chrome users. The effect is the following: any extension that is not compatible with…