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Facebook and Google this week announced the decision to postpone this year's BountyCon bug hunting conference due to health risks. "Out of an abundance of caution, we've decided to postpone BountyCon due to evolving public health risks related to coronavirus. While this was a difficult decision to make, our priority is the health and safety of our attendees," Facebook says.
Users looking for a privacy-focused browser might want to consider Brave first, according to a study published this week. Douglas Leith, professor of computer systems at Trinity University, examined six browsers for his report - Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home? He found that Brave's Chromium-based browser is the least likely to reveal unique identifying information about the computer using it.
The Mitre Corporation has released version 4.0 of the Common Weakness Enumeration list, which has been expanded to include hardware security weaknesses. About CWE. The Common Weakness Enumeration is a category system for weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Evidence is emerging that a barely noticed change made to Chrome 80, released on 4 February, might have disrupted the hugely successful data and user profile stealing malware AZORult. Now, according to research by Israeli security company Kela, chatter on crime forums suggests cybercriminals believe that Chrome 80's move to encrypt locally saved passwords and cookies using AES-256 has killed the malware's attempts to steal data for good.
City and state governments can be especially hard hit. Though ransomware incidents against local governments increased in 2019, many agencies are still unprepared for a potential attack, according to a report released Thursday by IBM Security.
That's why, following the World Health Organization having declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, Facebook late last month said it would help by trying to limit the spread of nonsense on its platform, including, for example, snakeoil posts about the fake miracle bleach cure. As Business Insider reported, the platform plans to ban ads that promise to cure the contagious illness or that try to "Create a sense of urgency" about it.
Microsoft Edge and Yandex are "Much more worrisome" compared to Brave, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, according to a paper on browser privacy published this week. Douglas J Leith, a comp sci professor at Trinity College Dublin, investigated the network activity of six browsers - Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Brave, Microsoft Edge and Yandex - using a proxy to capture encrypted traffic.
Microsoft Edge and Yandex are "Much more worrisome" compared to Brave, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, according to a paper on browser privacy published this week. Douglas J Leith, a comp sci professor at Trinity College Dublin, investigated the network activity of six browsers - Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Brave, Microsoft Edge and Yandex - using a proxy to capture encrypted traffic.
2, the world's largest nonprofit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals - announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Security Industry Association Limited that will strive for the advancement of the information security profession in Australia. In addition to promoting the importance of having qualified and certified physical security and information security professionals, both organisations agree that physical and electronic security systems and information security systems are converging, and both these aspects of security are vital to the other.
A powerful new approach to securing web browsers is getting its first real-world application in the Firefox browser. The new approach is now part of a test release of the Firefox browser for the Linux operating system and could be available on Windows and MacOS platforms within a few months.