Mozilla has announced that it is testing an experimental service called Firefox Private Relay that it thinks will offer an appealing solution to the issue of having to hand over your email address every time you want to set up any online account.
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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.
“Zero-click” mobile phone attacks – and how to avoid them
What if a messaging app has to show you an unwanted message so you can decide whether you want it shown to you?
Coronavirus tracking tool from Apple and Google embraced by Germany
Germany’s ditched a homegrown alternative that featured a centralized database of location data, raising privacy concerns.
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.
Microsoft and Google delay online authentication change
Both Microsoft and Google have postponed a change that would have forced better application security by shutting down an insecure access protocol called Basic Authentication.
Google removes Android VPN with ‘critical vulnerability’ from Play Store
Google has removed the SuperVPN program from the Google Play store after researchers notified it of a critical vulnerability.
Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics
The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.
Thousands of Android apps contain undocumented backdoors, study finds
A study has found that thousands of legitimate Android apps are taking liberties or installing with capabilities that users wouldn’t expect to exist.
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.