KOI, an Israel-based cybersecurity firm focused on developing protections against extension-based attacks, has released a report alleging that Urban VPN Proxy, a popular VPN extension on Google Chrome ...

BLACK HAT, EUROPE — (Booth #305) — Push Security, a leader in browser-based detection and response, today announced the discovery of a new class of phishing attack that enables Microsoft account ...

AI browsers are too risky for adoption today, Gartner said. CISOs need to block them until existing security concerns are reduced. Automation is useful, but convenience shouldn't replace security.

Gartner has recommended that enterprises block use of AI browsers until the associated risks can be adequately managed. The analyst firm made the suggestion in a new report, Cybersecurity Must Block ...

The AI browser wars are heating up. OpenAI and other AI companies like Perplexity have gotten a lot of attention with their new AI-first and agentic browsers. They're being positioned as direct ...

Not all vulnerabilities are equal. There, I’ve said it. While all security vulnerabilities do, of course, need to be taken seriously, not every one will have an impact on every user, every ...

DigitalEd (Möbius) and Schoolyear have partnered to provide higher ed institutions with a scalable, locked-down environment to protect assessment integrity. As higher education continues to embrace ...

SquareX has disclosed a previously undocumented API within the Comet AI browser that allows its embedded extensions to execute arbitrary commands and launch applications — capabilities mainstream ...

AI browsers, like Perplexity’s Comet and Brave’s Leo, can offer conveniences not found in conventional browsers, but they also pose potentially higher risks. “The ability to quickly gather and ...

We’ve all paused our gaming session to hit up a browser for the solution to a puzzle or boss fight that we just couldn’t get past. The process is muscle memory for some of us: Put down the controller, ...

Browser extensions are well known productivity enhancers that make our web browsing experience more personalized. In recent years, they’ve also served as business workflow streamliners. However, a new ...