Security & Privacy News

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1. Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer

   By lurch234, February 4, 2024
   • 2 comments
   • 973 views
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   • Comment by lurch234
   • February 4, 2024

2. Firebird RAT creator and seller arrested in the U.S. and Australia

   By Karlston, April 13, 2024
   • 0 comments
   • 644 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 13, 2024

3. Firefox 93 for Android becomes system-wide password manager

   By Karlston, October 2, 2021   

   • android
   • firefox
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • android
     • firefox
     • password manager
   • 0 comments
   • 1,365 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 2, 2021

4. Firefox 95 will include RLBox sandboxing for added security

   By Karlston, December 6, 2021   

   • firefox
   • sandboxing
   • 0 comments
   • 981 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • December 6, 2021

5. Firefox adds enhanced cookie clearing, HTTPS by default in private browsing

   By Karlston, August 10, 2021   

   • firefox
   • security
   • 0 comments
   • 1,229 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 10, 2021

6. Firefox continues Manifest V2 support as Chrome disables MV2 ad-blockers

   By Karlston, February 26   

   • google chrome
   • manifest v2
   • 2 comments
   • 469 views
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   • Comment by DKT27
   • February 27

7. Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

   By Karlston, March 1   

   • mozilla firefox
   • 0 comments
   • 395 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • March 1

8. Firefox improves advertising tracker blocking in private browsing

   By Karlston, October 6, 2021   

   • firefox
   • tracker blocker
   • 0 comments
   • 844 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 6, 2021

9. Firefox is getting a button to Reset Private Browsing Sessions

   By Karlston, October 6, 2023   

   • mozilla firefox
   • private browsing
   • 0 comments
   • 847 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 6, 2023

10. Firefox Makes Changes to Add-on Policy to Better Protect Users

    By aum, November 6, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 827 views
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    • Added by aum
    • November 6, 2021

11. Firefox Monitor may remove personal information now from the Internet

    By Karlston, December 6, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 829 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 6, 2021

12. Firefox now blocks cross-site tracking by default for all users

    By Karlston, June 14, 2022   

    • firefox
    • tracking
    • 0 comments
    • 953 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 14, 2022

13. Firefox now blocks cross-site tracking by default in private browsing

    By Karlston, June 1, 2021   

    • firefox
    • tracking
    • 0 comments
    • 1,415 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 1, 2021

14. Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions

    By Karlston, October 7, 2021   

    • firefox
    • ads
    • 0 comments
    • 1,177 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 7, 2021

15. Firefox Relay update brings larger attachment sizes and a filter for promotional emails

    By Karlston, March 12, 2022   

    • firefox relay
    • 0 comments
    • 819 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 12, 2022

16. Firefox Relay's addition to disposable email blocklist upsets users

    By Karlston, January 17, 2022   

    • firefox
    • 0 comments
    • 826 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 17, 2022

17. Firefox users slam Mozilla over controversial data privacy update — while ironically using "the biggest data-mining operating system in the world (aka Microsoft Windows)"

    By Karlston, March 5   

    • mozilla firefox
    • privacy
    • 1 comment
    • 494 views
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    • Comment by Mutton
    • March 5

18. Firefox will block insecure downloads soon by default

    By Karlston, August 13, 2021   

    • firefox
    • 0 comments
    • 996 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 13, 2021

19. Firefox’s anti-tracking feature adds per-account VPN for more privacy

    By Karlston, February 2, 2022   

    • firefox
    • 0 comments
    • 586 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 2, 2022

20. Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status

    By alf9872000, July 21, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 905 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • July 21, 2023

21. First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

    By Karlston, June 18, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 909 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 18, 2021

22. First Bitwarden password manager update of 2025 improves password auto-fill

    By Karlston, January 16   

    • bitwarden
    • update
    • 0 comments
    • 790 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 16

23. First look at Brave Browser's upcoming Off The Record feature

    By Karlston, May 29, 2023   

    • brave browser
    • 0 comments
    • 873 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 29, 2023

24. First look at NordVPN's Threat Protection feature

    By Karlston, April 30, 2022   

    • nordvpn
    • 0 comments
    • 778 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 30, 2022

25. Five reasons antivirus has gotten worse

    By alf9872000, March 12, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 992 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • March 12, 2024