How to Stop Online Tracking: 3 New Ways

How to Stop Online Tracking: 3 New Ways

In this episode host Tom Eston discusses one of the biggest privacy concerns people have today, online tracking by companies and advertisers. Tom will cover the following topics, tips, and new techniques ...
a leaking cookie

Apple Safari Leaks Cookies, so ‘Russia-Backed’ Hackers Attack Targets

Apple’s under fire yet again for iOS security bugs in WebKit—the code behind the Safari browser ...
Security Boulevard

Apple Will Offer Onion Routing for iCloud/Safari Users

At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called “iCloud Private Relay.” That’s basically its private version of onion routing, which is what Tor does. Privacy Relay is built into ...
Safari Web Share API Stealing Local Files

Unfixed Safari Bug Lets Attacker Steal Files

Safari bug affects users sharing content Attackers can exploit the issue to steal files Details on the vulnerability are now public, Apple has no fix planned Security researcher Pawel Wylecial has found ...
Safari

Apple Turns the Anti-Ad Thumbscrews With Safari Cookie Blocking

Apple’s latest salvo in the privacy war is to fully block third-party cookies in Safari—by default ...
Security Boulevard
SSL Certificate Validity Will Be Limited to One Year by Apple’s Safari Browser

SSL Certificate Validity Will Be Limited to One Year by Apple’s Safari Browser

Starting Sept. 1, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with validity periods longer than 398 days Starting Sept. 1, Apple’s Safari browser will no longer trust SSL/TLS leaf certificates... The post ...
Choice Hotels: If a + b + c = d, then oops, we might have leaked some Safari users’ personal info

Choice Hotels: If a + b + c = d, then oops, we might have leaked some Safari users’ personal info

Choice Hotels has advised its customers to watch out for fraud after an extremely specific security lapse may have compromised their personal data. In a notice to customers, the hospitality franchise says ...
eGobbler infects more than 1 billion ads in worldwide campaign

eGobbler infects more than 1 billion ads in worldwide campaign

The eGobbler malvertising threat actor has made a return, this time exploiting a WebKit vulnerability used primarily by iPhone’s Safari browser. Security researchers from Confiant estimate up to 1.16 billion impressions have ...

Webkit vulnerability affecting Safari et al

| | Apple, ios, Linux, macos, Safari
Bleeping Computer: WebKit Vulnerability Affects Latest Versions of Apple Safari “A researcher published exploit code for a vulnerability in WebKit, the web browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari, along with other apps ...
Addressing Risk with Subresource Integrity (SRI)

What’s in Your Website? Lurking Risk from Third-party Resources

Address Risk from Third-party Resources with Subresource Integrity (SRI) In most real-life web apps there’s a need to include third-party resources. Whether it is for advertisements, A/B testing, analytics or other purposes, ...