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Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

Thu, 2025-08-21 11:28
Researcher claims extension didn't start out by exfiltrating info... while dev says its actions are 'compliant'

Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users' page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge – and Google has yet to take it down.…

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AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Thu, 2025-08-21 10:33
One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute.…

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Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks

Thu, 2025-08-21 09:33
Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report

Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.…

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FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached

Thu, 2025-08-21 08:38
Fork runs Android apps and keeps old PCs ticking over ... all without signing into an account with the mothership

FydeOS is an alternative to ChromeOS Flex, but with a few significant differences – including Google-account-free operation.…

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