Author: Anton McClure

Windows 10 Update Breaks Google Chrome Security

By Anton McClure
Originally published at https://antonmcclure.com Microsoft has been making the news a lot for Windows Updates issues. Google has recently revealed that an update to Windows 10 1903 broke an essential security feature in Google Chrome. The update includes a security feature bypass vulnerability, as termed by Microsoft, which means attackers can let an application run code at a different integrity level the application, and escape the sandbox environment that Chrome runs in – the opposite of the sandbox’s purpose. Google’s Project Zero team made a very detailed and technical writeup of the issues it caused, and I suggest you give it a read […]

(Why) Privacy Matters

By Anton McClure
Originally published at https://antonmcclure.com on 12 March 2020.(admin note: seriously, check Anton’s site out! he posts a crap load more than I think I ever will here lol) There’s no doubt to many people that we are living in a highly-connected Internet age full of big data. As the amount of big data goes up, so does the importance of protecting people’s privacy. After the GDPR took effect in May 2018, sites were required to say when they’d use cookies, and what those cookies do. However, for many websites, the cookie consent banners still broke the law by making it hard to reject […]