Learn to spot some of the threats that you can face while browsing online, and the best tips to stay safe on the web. Web browsers are our gateway to the digital world. We spend hours on them each day, which makes them not only a vital tool for legitimate users, but a valuable target … More Staying safe online: How to browse the web securely
The DNS, the internet’s address book, has long been plagued by malicious domains with little hope for effective recourse against this abuse by its bookkeepers: the registrars. ESET brings its protective technology to bear on this issue. Since the early 1980s, the Domain Name System (DNS) has been used for looking up the Internet Protocol … More Introducing ESET NetProtect: Fighting threats at the DNS level
You can only stay safe by disabling AirDrop discovery in the system settings of your Apple device, a study says. Two security loopholes in Apple’s AirDrop feature could let hackers access the phone numbers and email addresses associated with both the sending and receiving device, German researchers have found. The feature, which lets users easily … More AirDrop flaws could leak phone numbers, email addresses
A bug in the ad blocking component of Brave’s Tor feature caused the browser to leak users’ DNS queries. Brave, one of the top-rated browsers for privacy, has fixed a bug in its Private Windows with Tor feature that leaked the .onion URLs for websites visited by the browser’s users, according to a report by an anonymous researcher, … More Brave browser’s Tor mode exposed users’ dark web activity
This month’s relatively humble bundle of security updates fixes 56 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug and 11 flaws rated as critical. Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, which means that Microsoft is rolling out patches for security vulnerabilities found in Windows and its other products. This year’s second batch of security updates brings … More Microsoft patches actively exploited Windows kernel flaw
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