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A set of address-bar spoofing vulnerabilities that affect a number of mobile browsers open the door for malware delivery, phishing and disinformation campaigns. "Essentially, if your browser tells you that a pop-up notification or a page is 'from' your bank, your healthcare provider or some other critical service you depend on, you really should have some mechanism of validating that source. In mobile browsers, that source begins and ends with the URL as shown in the address bar. The fact of the matter is, we really don't have much else to rely on."
Forthcoming versions of the Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera are in the process of removing the ability to disable a long-ignored tracking feature called hyperlink auditing pings.
Opera lost its Android browser's VPN after it was sold to a Chinese consortium, but now it's back.
When it appears in the next few weeks, the next version of Opera (“Reborn 3” or “R3”) for Windows, Mac and Linux will become the first mainstream desktop browser to integrate a cryptocurrency wallet.
A Chinese infosec researcher has discovered a new "almost impossible to detect" phishing attack that can be used to trick even the most careful users on the Internet. He warned, Hackers can use a...
Browser maker Opera warns 1.7 million Opera sync accounts possibly compromised and urges users to change passwords.
