Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies." The nonprofit organization is, however, not softening its stand on protecting ...
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered an active cyber-espionage operation that so far has compromised computers belonging to government ministries, technology companies, media outlets, academic research institutions and ...
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 21, adding more social media connections, tweaking the Do Not Track privacy setting and rolling out a new tool that long term, aims to create a self-healing browser. The open-source developer also ...
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Add-ons, Keeper Sharing and Keeper Extensions, develop a robust functionality Online consumer data security software, Keeper, has been bolstered with two major features to help better protect consumers' critical data, with Keeper Sharing ...
Microsoft today said it will issue 10 security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch 33 vulnerabilities, including the zero-day bug that has been used by cyber criminals to poison "watering hole" websites in attacks aimed at ...
The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said. "Sony is known for quality and user ...
Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development in November, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule. A new addition to a Mozilla wiki noted that the browser will be completed ...
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A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that ...
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Several media outlets in the Washington DC area have had their websites hacked and used to spread malware. WTOP, the largest radio station in the region, and Federal News Radio, along with the website of technology blogger John Dvorak ...
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US retail giant Target is rolling out a system that can offer customers discount vouchers over social networking sites in a bid to lure them back into bricks-and-mortar stores. The systems enables people to select the deals marketed to ...
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Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser. The move comes after computer security researchers said Tuesday they discovered that a ...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. IE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and in ...
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Google yesterday released an add-on that lets users view Microsoft Office documents within its Chrome browser, another small step in the search giant's encroachment on Microsoft's lucrative business productivity turf. Two months ago, ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
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