We no longer choose our web browsers based on bells and whistles. These days its all about privacy and security and we’d like to know which browser (and which vendor) you trust to be your companion on the web.
Tag Archives: Google Chrome
That’s “Dead PIGEON”, not “Dead PARROT”! 60 Second Security
Our weekly 1-minute security video. Forget dead parrots…here’s the Dead Pigeon sketch.
Look! A Fraud Fighting Ferret! [Chet Chat Podcast 212]
Chester Wisniewski is back from Down Under to resume our podcast series. From fraud-fighting ferrets to a convicted “Spam King” – enjoy!
Google Chrome will block Flash from tomorrow…well, sort of
Adobe’s Flash will face a double setback on 1 September 2015, when both Amazon and Google shift into “HTML5 is way better for ads” mode.
Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015
The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.
Websites can track us by the way we type – here’s how to stop it
Researchers have come up with a new Chrome extension that muffles our key-press duration and typing lags.
Dmail promises self-destructing Gmail messages
After an email has been “destroyed” (or, rather, encrypted), recipients will see a message that the email has been killed. Should we trust it will do what it says with personal data?
NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win…
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google’s Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on… …that listened to your microphone.
Google Chrome “bad link” detection bypass – found, fixed
Here’s a small and simple XSS detection hole in Google Chrome – a reminder that even determined programmers sometimes overlook the obvious.
SSCC 197 – Could the LOVE BUG virus outbreak happen again? [PODCAST]
Listen to our latest podcast. From the end of Patch Tuesday to the likelihood of another virus outbreak like LOVE BUG, here’s news and discussion with plenty of sound advice…