extensions

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018
70% of VPN Chrome Extensions Leak Your DNS

Researchers John Mason with the help of TheBestVPN.com the ethical hacker File Descriptor from Cure53 tested 15 VPN services and 10 of them were causing DNS leaks through their Chrome browser extensions. Intro Google Chrome has a feature called DNS Prefetching(https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching) which is an attempt to resolve domain names before a user tries to follow a link. It’s a solution to reduce latency delays […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2015
Google blocks Chrome extensions out of the official Store

The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. With new policies […]