Researchers find 245 extensions installed on nearly a million devices The extensions could turn devices into web scraping ...

Read this before installing extensions to your web browser. Jefferson Graham. USA TODAY. When Amazon offered recently to pay Prime members $10 to download its Assistant browser extension, ...

Somé focused on a specific class of web extension called “WebExtensions API,” a cross-browser extensions system compatible with major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Edge.

Browser extensions — however useful or fun they may seem when you install them — typically have a great deal of power and can effectively read and/or write all data in your browsing sessions.

Browser extensions change the way we work. They alter facets of your job by changing the experience of the apps on which you rely so they conform to your workflow -- versus having to open 17 ...

Browser extensions can be helpful, ... (Hey underlined links! 1997 called, it wants its web design back!) This extension was last updated in March 2014, making it 11 years old.

To address this, cybersecurity company LayerX has launched ExtensionPedia, a kind of “Wikipedia for extensions,” aimed at providing in-depth risk assessments for over 200,000 browser ...

Web browser extensions can be useful, but malicious or poorly secured extensions can lead to trouble. Consumer Reports has tips for browser extension safety.

The same extensions and apps that you use to provide additional features, integrate with services, block ads and provide shopping services also serve as gateways to cybercriminals.

This extension allows users to save any web page they're on as a PDF file and share it or download it to disk. The extension is also Windows-only, meaning Mac and Linux Chrome users will not ...

It's easy to add extensions to your browser. You probably do it all the time. They're fun and they make life easier, but they can also be incredibly dangerous, as Stanford Computer Science Ph.D ...