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How Web Apps Can Turn Browser Extensions Into Backdoors

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريPrivacy, Web Security January 22, 2019Comments are Disabled

Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data. Researchers have added another reason to be suspicious of web browser extensions. According to a recently published academic report, various Chrome, Firefox and Opera browser extensions can be compromised by …

MICROSOFT PATCHES 20 CRITICAL VULNERABILITIES

by Prof. Dr. Athir Muharib Al-Suhairi | د. أثير محارب السهيريPrivacy November 13, 2017Comments are Disabled

Microsoft tackled 53 vulnerabilities with today’s Patch Tuesday bulletin. Remote code execution bugs dominated this month’s patches, representing 25 fixes. In total, 20 of Microsoft’s security fixes were rated critical. Notable are four vulnerabilities with public exploits identified by Microsoft as CVE-2017-11848, CVE-2017-11827, CVE-2017-11883 and CVE-2017-8700. But, according to an analysis of Patch Tuesday fixes …