Researchers have identified a fresh threat to the way consumers interact with websites, this time from software designed to block advertisements.PrivDog has been found to compromise a layer of the internet known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) – used to safeguard online transactions.It follows the discovery of a similar problem with Superfish, software pre-installed on some Lenovo computers.
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Ad-blocking software is ‘worse than Superfish’
Researchers have identified a fresh threat to the way consumers interact with websites, this time from software designed to block advertisements.