A security hole allows attackers to crash Android phones and force them to soft-reboot. Discovered by Nightwatch Cybersecurity software engineer Yakov Shafranovich, the bug hinges on what are known as ...
The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD), enabled by default on Windows and supported by other operating systems, can expose computer users’ online accounts, web searches, and other private data, ...
Proxy auto config (PAC) is a feature accepted by all modern browsers, according to Fabio Assolini, a lab expert at Kaspersky. It contains a function to redirect browsers to a specific proxy server. A ...