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DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-292022-12-25 by Bill Toulas
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DuckDuckGo apps and extensions are now blocking Google Sign-in pop-ups on all its apps and browser extensions, removing what it perceives as an annoyance and a privacy risk for its users. DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused search engine, an email service, mobile apps, and … Read more

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Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-292022-11-25 by Bill Toulas
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Google has released an emergency security update for the desktop version of the Chrome web browser, addressing the eighth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks this year. The high-severity flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-4135 and is a heap buffer overflow in … Read more

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Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-292022-10-09 by Bill Toulas
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The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit. If you visited BleepingComputer from Europe, you may have noticed an annoying cookie consent prompt asking if you would … Read more

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Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work (1997) [pdf]

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2025-12-302022-03-13 by Bill Toulas

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Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-302022-03-13 by Bill Toulas
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Finland’s Transport and Communications Agency, Traficom, has issued a public announcement informing of an unusual spike in GPS interference near the country’s eastern border. The origin of the interference remains unknown, but based on numerous reports submitted to the agency … Read more

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Over 90 WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-302022-01-22 by Bill Toulas
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A massive supply chain attack compromised 93 WordPress themes and plugins to contain a backdoor, giving threat-actors full access to websites. In total, threat actors compromised 40 themes and 53 plugins belonging to AccessPress, a developer of WordPress add-ons used … Read more

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Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

bleepingcomputer.com
2025-12-302021-10-16 by Bill Toulas
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Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner or faxing functions if they run out of ink. David Leacraft, a customer of Canon, filed the class action lawsuit on Tuesday alleging deceptive … Read more

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