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Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a message from the company, dated March 30.
Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a message from the company, dated March 30.
Open source web programming language PHP narrowly avoided a potentially dangerous supply chain attack over the weekend. In theory, anyone who downloaded the very latest "Still in development" version of PHP on Sunday 2021-03-28, compiled it, and installed it on a real-life, internet facing web server could have been at risk.
A web application firewall is your first line of defence when it comes to protecting your organization from an array of potential threats. By filtering out the content scrapers, bots, and other web creepy-crawlies, you can remove their impact on your infrastructure reduce the overall cost of maintaining your web presence.
As Google security engineers pointed out, these mechanisms do not prevent the Spectre exploit, but rather "Protect sensitive data from being present in parts of the memory from which they can be read by the attacker." To further reduce the risk of data leakage, website owners should add an extra line of defense to protect the actual data in memory in the event that all other security controls.
The Chrome browser extension ClearURLs has been removed from the Chrome Web Store, for reasons its developer describes as "Ridiculous." Google's Chrome team emailed ClearURLs developer Kevin Roebert yesterday to tell him: "Your item had to be removed from the Chrome Web Store," citing three violations of its terms.
Ever since the first dark web monitoring services became available, around 2005, consumers of such services often asked - why aren't these websites being taken down? After all, the sites that comprise the dark web are platforms and tools for illegal activities. There is a case to be made for adopting the other strategy - disrupt the dark web as much as possible - and it seems that unlike the early days of dark web monitoring, it is not one that is discussed at all.
A report released Tuesday by threat intelligence firm Check Point Research explains how phony COVID-19 vaccine documents are selling on the Dark Web and how to avoid these fake documents. For individuals who don't have such a certificate or can't wait for a vaccine, the Dark Web is becoming home to fake documents, according to Check Point's analysis.
"Unfortunately, it seems that FLoC contains a privacy design bug that leaks the information about whether the user is browsing in private mode or not," Olejnik wrote in a blog post on Monday, noting that he'd spotted a similar Incognito detection bug in another API. Incognito mode is supposed to prevent online histories from being recorded in the browser's local log and to erase local HTTP cookies and site data from memory at the end of a session. The service's name suggests otherwise and Google was sued in June, 2020, for allegedly collecting data from Incognito Chrome users.
Twitter has added support for multiple security keys to accounts with two-factor authentication enabled for logging into the social network's web interface and mobile apps. "Secure your account with multiple security keys," Twitter said.