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34 Malicious Chrome Extensions Have Been Found With A Total of 75 Million Installs
34 malicious Chrome extensions have been found in the web store which in total could have around 75 million installs. Malicious Chrome Extensions As reported by BleepingComputer.com, a cybersecurity researcher, Wladimir Palant had analyzed the PDF Toolbox extension which has 2 million downloads on the Chrome Web Store and has…
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Amazon Could Be Planning a Web Browser
Amazon is a huge company and has ventured into many areas beyond its huge online marketplace including video and music streaming services, brick-and-mortar stores and many others though now it seems that Amazon may be looking into making its own web browser. Is Amazon Planning a Web Browser? Amazon has…
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Lian Li Unveil New STRIMER PLUS V2 ARGB Extension Cables
LIAN LI has announced the launch of its brand new series of ARGB extension cables with the STRIMER PLUS V2. Available for motherboard 24-pin connectors, GPU 8-pin (2×6+2-pin), and GPU triple 8-pin (3×6+2-pin), the STRIMER PLUS V2 offers improved brightness with a new side light diffuser, better flexibility with silicon-wrapped…
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Thermaltake Launch its TT Premium PCIe 4.0 Extenders
Thermaltake has announced the release of its new PCI-E Extender 4.0 series, with the launch of the PCI-E 4.0 Extender 300 mm/600 mm and PCI-E 4.0 Extender 300 mm (with a 90-degree adapter). Promising an easy installation, these PIC-E 4.0 Extenders are perfect for dealing with larger and heavy graphics…
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Researchers Find 28 Browser Extensions With Malicious Code
There’s a good chance that some of the more tech-savvy among you reading this may have one or more browser extensions installed on your system. Offering various tweaks to how your internet gateway operates, I know I have a few that make the experience an overall smoother ride. – If…
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Google Kicks Cryptocurrency Miners Off Chrome
Google Bans New Mining Extensions From Chrome Web Store Over the past year or so, the world has been in a bit of a cryptocurrency craze. So far, there has been cryptocurrency mining in apps, websites, ads and browsers. One notable source of cryptocurrency miners is from browser extensions. To crack…
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Facebook Blocks Fake News Detector
While Facebook has promised to tackle its fake news problem, partially blamed for Donald Trump’s victorious Presidential election, it has fallen to third parties to properly deal with the issue. One such method of curating fake news on Facebook is web browser extension B.S. Detector, which fact-checks each story posted…
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New Chrome Extension Does What Facebook Fails to Do
Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately in regards to fake news stories after they fired all their employees handling that and going back to an automated model – a model that continuously fails. A new Chrome extension has been born out of that and it deals with…
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Microsoft to Offer Tool for Porting Chrome Extensions to Edge
With the release of their new operating system, Windows 10, Microsoft has been keen on getting users to use their new software. Not just their operating system is new, though, with Edge replacing the demonised Internet explorer. One thing that has kept users from accepting and using the new browser…
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Microsoft’s Edge to Test Browser Extensions
In this day and age, people enjoy customizing their experience with everything. The same goes for their experience when browsing online and with the likes of Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome offering countless extensions Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, seems to be lacking the feature. That looks to change with Microsoft looking to…
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Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Bitcoin
The Bitcoin exchange portal Bitstamp warned users over the weekend that a Google Chrome browser extension had been caught stealing Bitcoin and users should avoid the BitscoinWisdom Ads Remover extension that at the time still was available in the Play store. The good news is that Google since banned the…
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Mac Update Disables Ethernet
In this day and age, most laptops and devices come with a wireless adapter built-in, even the latest Raspberry Pi includes wireless. This is lucky for when you can’t get to the router in your house, or the cable just won’t reach your favourite seat, or when your ethernet connection…
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Google Isn’t Happy With AVG’s Chrome Plugin
AVG have a give and take relationship when it comes to their attitudes and approach with security and privacy, from their creation of glasses that could hide you from facial recognition software to going so far as to start selling your browsing activity to companies. AVG Chrome plugin has been found…
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Block Star Wars Spoilers With a Little Help
Star Wars the Force Awakens is set to be one of the largest films of the year and with generations of followers waiting for the big release this Thursday it was only a matter of time before people started posting spoilers or concepts that could ruin the film if you…
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AdBlock Has a New Owner and No One Knows Who
Popular Chrome and Safari browser extension AdBlock has been quietly sold, and no one seems to know who the new owner is. Yesterday, users of AdBlock – rebranded from its former guise as AdBlock Plus – may have seen a pop-up announcing that, in contravention of the entire principle of…
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