Firefox ditches Flash and adds supercookie protection

With the release of Firefox 85, Mozilla’s browser is isolating caches and network connections for each visited website. This makes supercookies useless for tracking users while browsing between sites.

According to the release notes. Firefox now protects you from supercookies, a type of tracker that can stay hidden in your browser and track you online, even after you clear cookies “By isolating supercookies, Firefox prevents them from tracking your web browsing from one site to the next.

The other highlight of this Firefox release is the removal of Adobe Flash support. The new Firefox version ships without Flash support, thus improving the browser’s performance and security.

Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 85 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically check for the new update and install it when available.

URGENT/11

The Armis research team, Armis Labs, have discovered 11 zero day vulnerabilities in VxWorks®, the most widely used operating system you may never heard about. VxWorks is used by over 2 billion devices including critical industrial, medical and enterprise devices. Dubbed “URGENT/11,” the vulnerabilities reside in VxWorks’ TCP/IP stack (IPnet), impacting all versions since version 6.5, and are a rare example of vulnerabilities found to affect the operating system over the last 13 years. Armis has worked closely with Wind River®, the maintainer of VxWorks, and the latest VxWorks 7 released on July 19 contains fixes for all the discovered vulnerabilities.

Six of the vulnerabilities are classified as critical and enable Remote Code Execution (RCE). The remaining vulnerabilities are classified as denial of service, information leaks or logical flaws. URGENT/11 is serious as it enables attackers to take over devices with no user interaction required, and even bypass perimeter security devices such as firewalls and NAT solutions. These devastating traits make these vulnerabilities ‘wormable,’ meaning they can be used to propagate malware into and within networks. Such an attack has a severe potential, resembling that of the EternalBlue vulnerability, used to spread the WannaCry malware.

READ MORE HERE https://armis.com/urgent11/

10 ways to speed up Windows 10

1. Change your power settings

2. Disable programs that run on startup

3. Stop OneDrive from Synching

4. Turn off search indexing

5. Clean up your hard disk

6. Clean your Registry

7. Disable shadows, animations, and visual effects

8. Launch the Windows troubleshooter

9. Run from the Performance Monitor

10. Shut down and restart Windows

The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices.

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