An odd story popped up on my social media feed over the weekend. The Internet Services Providers’ Association has nominated Mozilla to be an ‘internet villain.’ This seemed rather odd given that the Firefox web browser is the only mainstream browser currently being developed independently of any company*. Looking closer at their reasoning, ISPA writes: …
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The push to secure peoples website connections is going a lot further. At first it was login forms that where getting labeled as insecure (most prominently in Firefox). Now Google, with Chrome is going a step further, from July this year all sites which are not using encrypted connections (old http) will be marked as …
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Major flaw in CPUs around how they process data where revealed this week. From the offical news release. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a malicious …