Google has announced a range of security changes to its Chrome browser that will make the use of extensions more secure.
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Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses
Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.
Users fret over Chrome auto-login change
Users were complaining this week after discovering they’d been logged in to Google’s Chrome browser automatically, after logging into a Google website.
Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?
Your web browser goes with you everywhere on the web. But how much do you trust it?
Major US mobile carriers want to be your password
Project Verify from Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile aims to replace your password.
Keybase browser extension weakness discovered
Respected researcher Wladimir Palant has recommended users “uninstall the Keybase browser extension ASAP” after discovering a gap in its end-to-end encryption.
Google Chrome will now generate unique passwords for you
Chrome will now generate a unique password for users as a part of the everyday credential creation process.
Firefox to start blocking ad-tracking by default
Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox’s privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.
Chrome: Flash is almost, almost, almost dead
If you use Google’s Chrome browser, after 4 September, the latest update will make it even harder to use in-browser Adobe Flash.
Firefox axes add-ons, developer pushes back
Mozilla has wiped 23 extensions from its directory of Firefox browser add-ons after finding what it says were inappropriate functions in the code.