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Posted on 17 August 202217 August 2022

Google Chrome exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed

Google fixes fifth Chrome zero-day bug exploited this year (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted on 15 July 202224 May 2023

Anonymous browsing – not anymore

Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have written a paper, which they will present at the Usenix Security Symposium in Boston, demonstrating how threat actors (or governments or law enforcement) could de-anonymise a users from their browsing habits. The attackers would analyse browsing activity and state to determine …

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Posted on 21 June 202221 June 2022

Vulnerabilities, come, get fixed, go and come back…

Vendors put a lot of effort into keeping their software secure from hackable vulnerabilities, with patches and updates, but the threat actors never give up looking. Here is an instance of an old vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser coming back: Refactoring code in WebKit resurrected ‘zombie’ security bug • …

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Posted on 15 June 202216 June 2022

Today Internet Explorer 11 is no more…

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End of support for Internet Explorer 11 web browser Today 15 June 2022, Microsoft will retire the Internet Explorer (IE) 11 after 27 years of Internet Explorer being included with Windows. There will no longer be security updates for the application, which means when the threat actors find flaws in …

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Posted on 13 June 202213 June 2022

Patch Google Chrome now

software patches are essential cybersecurity

You need to check your Google Chrome browsers – whatever platform you use – are up to date: Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome | CISA

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