Google's New Chrome Extension Lets You Flag Suspicious Websites By Phillip Tracy Google Chrome's Suspicious Site Reporter extension makes it easy to flag suspicious websites and add them to the company's blacklist.
Firefox Gets Emergency Patch to Stop Zero-Day Attacks By Paul Wagenseil Firefox was updated to version 67.0.3 on all platforms, to fix a flaw being exploited in attacks against selected targets.
Google Chrome May Block Ad Blockers: What This Means for You By Paul Wagenseil Google aims to neuter most ad blockers in Chrome. Here's what will be affected and how you can keep blocking ads.
Coinhive Is Shutting Down, and Your PC Will Be Safer By Paul Wagenseil The browser-based cryptocurrency-mining service Coinhive is closing down, and crooks who want to steal your CPU cycles are out of luck.
Microsoft Guts Edge, Adds Chromium to Save Failing Browser By Henry T. Casey Edge may keep its name, but changes in 2019 will change the engine that powers the browser, a move to keep Microsoft's browser relevant.
Chrome to Block All Ads on Sites That Run Scammy Ads By Marshall Honorof Google will block misleading ads in Chrome, and website owners who don't comply could find themselves without any ads at all.
Watch Out: This Nasty Bug Will Crash Your Browser By Monica Chin Clicking on webpages containing a certain snippet of JavaScript will crash Firefox, Chrome, Safari and possibly Edge.
Nasty New Scam Hijacks Your Mouse Cursor By Marshall Honorof A new malvertising campaign employs fake cursors on its websites, which prevent you from simply closing your browser window.
Chrome's Killing 'WWW' in Address Bar — And That's Bad By Paul Wagenseil The new Chrome version hides 'www' and 'm' in the address bar, making it easier for fraudsters and criminals to fool you with fake websites.
Guess What: Ad Blockers Don't Block Ads That Well By Paul Wagenseil An academic study finds that ad blocking and tracking blocking, both by browsers and browser extensions, can be easily bypassed.
Chrome's New Ad Blocker: Here's How It Works By Henry T. Casey Google's going to filter out ads that it claims to ruin the web browsing experience. Here's how it works and what devices will get it.
Avoid These Corrupted Chrome Extensions (For Now) By Marshall Honorof Software developers have fallen prey to phishing schemes, and their once-legitimate Chrome extensions now threaten millions of people.
Comrade! Russian URL Leads to Fake Apple Site By Paul Wagenseil Chrome, Firefox are still vulnerable to attacks that use non-Latin characters to imitate addresses of well-known websites.
IE, Edge Users at Risk from Serious Browser Security Flaw By Don Reisinger Google found a serious security flaw in Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer browsers three months ago, but there's no fix in sight.
Hey, Dummies: Update Your Browsers Now or Get Hacked By Paul Wagenseil Most people don't update their web browsers or plugins unless it happens automatically, leaving themselves open to attack by hackers.
Adobe Flash Player Under Attack: Patch Your Browser Now By Marshall Honorof If you won't uninstall the dangerous Adobe Flash Player browser plugin, then at least patch it ASAP. Hackers are attacking its flaws.
How to Check (and Erase) Everything Google Knows About You By Michael Andronico Google's new My Activity dashboard lets you view (and delete) just about everything you've ever searched for across YouTube, Chrome, Google Maps and more.
Patch – or Kill – Your Adobe Flash Player Now By Paul Wagenseil Adobe releases yet another emergency patch for its beleaguered Flash Player software, which you may want to just disable permanently.
Workplace PCs Should Ditch IE for Chrome, Report Says By Marshall Honorof If you use Internet Explorer, a new security study suggests that you ditch it for Chrome, which automatically stays updated and secure.
Malicious Ads Move from Browsers to Skype By Henry T. Casey Malicious online ads have begun to appear on Internet-connected desktop applications such as Skype, posing a new threat to Web users.
Ransomware Epidemic Spreads Across WordPress Websites By Paul Wagenseil Hundreds of WordPress-based sites have been hacked to infect visitors with TeslaCrypt encrypting ransomware.
Google Chrome Now Blocks Deceptive Online Ads By Marshall Honorof Google has had enough of four fake download links for every real one, and has expanded its Safe Browsing program to block them.
How This Prank Site Can Crash Your iPhone By Paul Wagenseil If you've already been fooled by shortened links that crash your iPhone or freeze Chrome, here's how the trick works and how to avoid it.
Apple Patches Secret iPhone Security Flaw By Marshall Honorof For almost three years, Apple knew that attackers could steal iOS cookies, but the company only just got around to fixing it.
Counter-Strike Chrome Extensions Steal Steam Goods By Marshall Honorof A recent spate of phony Counter-Strike extensions claim to net you fantastic items, but in fact will just steal your Steam valuables.
How to Protect Your Browser Privacy with Panopticlick By Marshall Honorof Panopticlick 2.0 can evaluate your browser's privacy quickly and noninvasively, then recommend steps to keep your information safe.
Google's App Streaming: What You Need to Know By Anna Attkisson By streaming apps, instead of downloading them, your mobile search experience should improve.
Shhh! Chrome Plugin Keeps Your TV Shows Unspoiled By Marshall Honorof Spoiler Alert is a Chrome extension that hopes to make accidental spoilers a thing of the past by identifying and blocking revealing info.
Mobile App Compresses Netflix to Save You Money By Michael Andronico Opera's data-saving Opera Max app now compresses YouTube and Netflix videos, making it easier to use less data on the go.
Meet Microsoft Edge, Windows 10's New Browser By Sam Rutherford At Build 2015, Microsoft finally revealed the name for its next generation Internet Explorer replacement for Windows 10: Microsoft Edge.
