Apple has announced that it is going to take a hard stance on online privacy with a new anti-tracking policy in Safari. The iPhone maker has published a “WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy” that goes into specifics about the types of anti-tracking methods it has developed, the practices it believes are harmful to users, and the …
A bug in a developer API allows malicious apps installed on macOS Mojave to gain access to a normally protected folder from where attackers can extract Safari browsing history data. The bug affects all known macOS Mojave versions and was discovered last week by Jeff Johnson, the developer of the Underpass Mac and iOS app …
The world’s most-popular web browsers are still failing to recognize new TLDs (top-level domains), many months after they go live on the internet. The version of the Safari browser that ships with the Mountain Lion iteration of Apple’s OS X appears to have even gone backwards, removing support for at least one TLD. read more