Category Archives: browser

Chrome 74 released

Posted on 2019-04-24 by guenni

[German]Google’s developers have released the new version 74 of the Google Chrome browser on April 23, 2019. The new Chrome 74.0.3729.108 contains improvements and security fixes.

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Tip: Troubleshooting TLS/SSL issues

Posted on 2019-04-23 by guenni

What can we do, if Internet pages are not accessible due to TLS issues and the browser only displays error messages because communication via TLS/SSL fails?

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Edge’s Secret Trick Breaks Internet Explorer’s Security

Posted on 2019-04-19 by guenni

[German]The 0Patch team has developed a micropatch to close a 0-Day Information Disclosure vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10. This vulnerability allows Windows attackers to access files and upload them from the user’s system to their own servers. … Continue reading →

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Firefox 66.0.3 released

Posted on 2019-04-13 by guenni

Short addendum – already on April 9, 2019 the developers of Mozilla released version 66.0.3 of the Firefox browser (available for Windows, Linux and macOS). It is a maintenance update that fixes some bugs. I had already seen it on … Continue reading →

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0-day vulnerability in IE 11 allows to steal files

Posted on 2019-04-13 by guenni

[German]There is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer that allows attackers in all versions of Windows to access and steal files. However, Microsoft has no ambitions to patch the vulnerability immediately.

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Chrome 73 shows “Managed by your Organization”

Posted on 2019-04-09 by guenni

Some users of the Google Chrome browser will see a “Managed by your Organization” command in the menu. Here is some information on why this is harmless.

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Edge with Chromium core released as preview

Posted on 2019-04-08 by guenni

Microsoft has released a preview of the Edge Browser, which contains the Chromium engine, as a preview for testing. Here is some information about this topic.

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Firefox wants to block notification spam

Posted on 2019-04-06 by guenni

The increasing use of push notifications by websites annoys many users. The Mozilla developers are therefore working on a function to control the notification spam through push notifications in Firefox.

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0-day vulnerabilities in IE and Edge

Posted on 2019-04-03 by guenni

[German]Current versions of Internet Explorer and Edge has 0-day cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to steal data from other tabs. Although the vulnerabilities were reported to the company 10 months ago, Microsoft hasn’t reacted, so there are no … Continue reading →

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Firefox 66.0.2 released

Posted on 2019-03-28 by guenni

Mozilla’s developers released version 66.0.2 of the Firefox browser for Windows, Linux and macOS on March 27, 2019. It’s a maintenance update that fixes some bugs, especially on Windows 10.

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