Third-party cookies have been the lynchpin of online advertising for many years. Plans to phase cookies out forever continue to run…
Tag: firefox
Browser sync—what are the risks of turning it on?
Modern browsers include synchronization features (like Google Chrome’s Sync) so that all your browsers, on all your devices, share the same…
3 tips to top up your privacy
It’s Data Privacy Day—the perennial event that many internet users may have never heard of, but have strong feelings and opinions…
Why Data Privacy Day matters: A Lock and Code special with Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF
You can read our full-length blog here about the importance of Data Privacy Day and data privacy in general Today is…
Mozilla patches critical security issues in Firefox and Thunderbird
Mozilla has issued a critical patch for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird after a security issue was discovered at the Tianfu…
WOOF locker: Unmasking the browser locker behind a stealthy tech support scam operation
Update [01-27-2020]: Shortly after this blog was published we noticed that a large part of the infrastructure behind this browlock was…
A week in security (July 15 – 21)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took an extensive look at Sodinokibi, one of the new ransomware strains found in the…
Hyperlink auditing: where has my option to disable it gone?
There is a relatively old method that might be gaining traction to follow users around on the world wide web. Most…
Mozilla urges Apple to make privacy a team sport
We often say cybersecurity is a team sport, but, pending a public advocacy campaign from one major tech developer to another,…
Mozilla launches Firefox Send for private file sharing
Mozilla look to reclaim some ground from the all-powerful Chrome with a new way to send and receive files securely from…