Month: February 2021

Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers

Signal, an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform was recently blocked by the Iranian government. To help its users bypass censorship in Iran, the company suggested a TLS proxy workaround. However, multiple researchers have now discovered flaws in the workaround that can let a censor or government authority …

Malicious extension abuses Chrome sync to steal users’ data

The Google Chrome Sync feature can be abused by threat actors to harvest information from compromised computers using maliciously-crafted Chrome browser extensions. Google’s infrastructure is also up for misuse as a command-and-control (C2) communication channel to exfiltrate the stolen data to attacker-controlled servers as security consultant …

Mozilla fixes Windows 10 NTFS corruption bug in Firefox

Mozilla has released Firefox 85.0.1 and includes a fix that prevents a Windows 10 NTFS corruption bug from being triggered from the browser. Last month, BleepingComputer reported that a bug in Windows 10 and Windows XP allows non-privileged users to mark an NTFS volume as dirty. …

How to use Mac Recovery Mode

  macOS Recovery (often referred to as Mac Recovery Mode) was introduced back in 2010 with OS X 10.7 Lion. This Recovery HD partition contains the latest version of the macOS you installed on your Mac and makes it possible to troubleshoot issues with your Mac. …