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Twitter Removes State-backed Actors Conducting Information Campaigns

Twitter has removed another batch of state-sponsored actors performing information campaigns on Twitter. The detected operations announced today involved Qatar, Iran, Yemen, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Spain, China, and Hong Kong. […]

11 Sep

Google Chrome May Let Sites Block Your Screen from Powering Down

Google Chrome developers have added an intent to experiment with a feature that enables web applications to keep systems awake even in lack of mouse or keyboard activity. […]

10 Sep

Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla’s Faces Criticism

Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgrade a user’s DNS server to a corresponding DoH server, and if available, use that for DNS resolution. […]

04 Sep

Mozilla Will Support Existing Ad Blockers in Extensions Manifest v3

Mozilla has decided to split from Google and continue to support existing ad blockers in the upcoming extension changes being proposed by Google as part of the Extensions Manifest v3. […]

31 Aug

Reddit Experiencing Outage Due to Amazon AWS Issue

Some users say they are experiencing problems with Reddit today. Most of them are reporting that they cannot access the website for the social discussion platform. […]

26 Aug

Phishing Campaign Delivers Quasar RAT Payloads via Fake Resumes

A new phishing campaign uses fake resume attachments designed to deliver Quasar Remote Administration Tool (RAT) malicious payloads onto the Windows computers of unsuspecting targets. […]

22 Aug

GitHub Experienced Widespread Major Services Outage

The GitHub Git repository hosting platform experienced a widespread and major services outage impacting the Issues, PRs, Dashboard, Projects, and Notifications features. […]

16 Aug

Google Has Started Removing FTP Support From Chrome

Google developers have wanted to remove FTP support from the Chrome browser for quite some time and have been slowly whittling away at its support. In a series of proposed code changes and an “Intent to Remove”, the end is near for the FTP protocol in Chrome. […]

14 Aug

Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of EV Certificates

Upcoming changes in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox may finally spark the end for Extended Validation certificates as the browsers plan to do away with showing a company’s name in the address bar. […]

09 Aug

Android Apps With Over 100M Installs Contain a Clicker Trojan

Researchers found a clicker Trojan bundled with over 33 apps, distributed through the Google Play Store, and downloaded by Android users over 100 million times. […]

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