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Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2019

Is Your Browser Secure? Here’s How to Secure Your Web Browser Against Attacks!

Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera, no matter which web browser you use, here’s what you need to know to protect them against attacks. There are a number of web browsers available for surfing sites and accessing the content. The most popular and widely used are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2015

eFast browser deletes and replaces your Chrome Browser

Security researchers have documented the existence of a new strain of malware dubbed eFast browser that deletes and replaces the entire Chrome Browser. Security experts from Malwarebytes have analyzed a new strain of malware that attempts to delete Chrome and replace it with a bogus version that allows attackers to hijack several file associations including HTML, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2015

Spy in the sandbox attack to spy on your online activity

Four security researchers at the Columbia University have developed a new technique dubbed Spy in the sandbox attack to spy on victims’ online activity. Four security researchers at the Columbia University (Yossef Oren, Vasileios Kemerlis, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Angelos Keromytis) have developed a new technique to hack computer using a Javascript that allow them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2015

Major Browsers hacked at Pwn2Own hacking competition

At the Pwn2Own hacking competition two researchers hacked the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. Two researchers on Thursday successfully hacked the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari, at the Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest in Vancouver. In particular the Korean researcher […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2013

Safari browser stores in plaintext previous secure session data

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Apple Safari browser stores previous secure session data unencrypted in a hidden folder. Apple’s Safari browser stores session information including authentication credentials used in previous HTTPS sessions to implement the feature “Reopen All Windows from Last Session”. Safari stores in a plain text XML file called Property list, or plist, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2012

Tens of zero day vulnerabilities, millions of users exposed

Every day we read about cyber threats, zero day vulnerabilities and new patch to apply so I decided to speak about a couple of vulnerabilities I believe potential dangerous for internet users. There is no peace for browsers, this category of application is considered a privileged target for hackers due their large diffusion. Once again […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2012

Google code used to circumvent privacy protections … true or false?

The Wall Street Journal in recent days has published a report on the activities of the Google company against Apple’s users using the Safari browser installed on all products of the company (Mac, iPhone and iPad). It was discovered a mechanism by which Google traced and memorized every online user’s action through cookies, circumventing the […]

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Is Your Browser Secure? Here’s How to Secure Your Web Browser Against Attacks!

eFast browser deletes and replaces your Chrome Browser

Spy in the sandbox attack to spy on your online activity

Major Browsers hacked at Pwn2Own hacking competition

Safari browser stores in plaintext previous secure session data

Tens of zero day vulnerabilities, millions of users exposed

Google code used to circumvent privacy protections … true or false?

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