Firefox 26 blocks Java plugins by default

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

Mozilla released Firefox 26 which includes five critical, three high, three moderate, and three low security updates. All Java plug-ins are defaulted to 'click to play', which is a welcome security addition. Benjamin Smedberg, Engineering Manager, Stability and Plugins at Mozilla commented: "When Mozilla conducted a user research study on the prototype ...

HTTP Nowhere for Firefox blocks all but encrypted traffic

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Protecting your privacy online is a hot topic right now, with PRISM looming over the heads of all Internet users. But even if you take PRISM aside, there is a drive towards privacy on the Internet. One of the things that users need to be aware of is the difference between ...

The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary by releasing a web browser that allows users to access TPB or other sites censored in their country. "PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client ...

TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network. The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites ...

Mailvelope: use OpenPGP encryption on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other webmail services

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would ...