Image Credits: sarayut Thaneerat / Getty Images Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google. Previously, Chrome downloaded a list of known sites that harbor malware, unwanted software and phishing scams once or twice per hour. Now, Chrome will move to a system that will send the URLs you are visiting to… Source link
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Read More »CORRECTED-Finland detects GPS disturbance near Russia’s Kaliningrad
(Corrects paragraph 11 to say 18 flights between Helsinki and Savonlinna, not from Helsinki to Savonlinna) HELSINKI, March 9 (Reuters) – Finnair said on Wednesday it had noticed interference with its planes’ GPS signals near Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave, while other aircraft reported similar problems near Finland’s eastern border with Russia since Sunday, Finnish authorities said. The interference began soon after Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto met U.S. counterpart Joe Biden in Washington… Source link
Read More »Bug in How Google Detects Soft 404s May Be Causing Traffic Losses
Soft 404 Google Soft 404 Bug Citation Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an ongoing problem on Google’s side related to soft 404 error response code and how it’s handled. It’s because of a change on Google’s side. Soft 404 A 404 error response code is a code that is sent by a web page to the web browser or to Google informing them that the page they were looking for no longer exists. Advertisement Continue Reading Below A server response code known as a 200 Response Code is a… Source link
Read More »Russian Tech Giant Yandex Detects Data Breach Affecting Over 4,800 Mailboxes
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 12th February, 2021) Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday it had detected a data breach of 4,887 mailboxes orchestrated by the company‘s employee for personal gain. “Yandex… today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain,” the company said in a press… Source link
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