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Chrome 83 adds DNS-over-HTTPS support and privacy tweaks
This week sees the early arrival of Chrome 83 with a longer list of new security features than originally planned.
Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy
The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.
49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets
They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them.
COVID-19 forces browser makers to continue supporting TLS 1.0
In one of the strangest stories of the year, the COVID-19 virus has halted plans by major browsers to drop support for the aging and insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols.
Chrome may bring back ‘www’ with option to show full URLs
Google’s doing so grudgingly: it still thinks that showing too much will confuse users trying to assess a site’s security.
Firefox is dropping FTP support
Heads up, Firefox users who rely on FTP: the browser is eliminating support for this venerable protocol.
COVID-19 disruption delays release of Chrome version 81
It’s the COVID-19 shortage nobody expected – not toilet rolls, tinned goods or headache pills this time but Google software engineers.
Chrome extension cons cryptocurrency users out of hardware wallet key
Ledger has warned users about a rogue Chrome extension that duped users into giving up the keys to their hardware crypto wallets.
Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US
Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.