The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD), enabled by default on Windows and supported by other operating systems, can expose computer users’ online accounts, web searches, and other private data, ...

Any URL is basically an IP address that you can remember easily. In other words, every working URL on the Internet is actually an IP address. The concept of IP addresses goes beyond URLs and extends ...

A very popular NPM package called 'pac-resolver' for the JavaScript programming language has been fixed to address a remote code execution flaw that could affect a lot of Node.js applications. The ...

Security researchers are warning all Windows users to disable the WPAD protocol immediately in order to avoid having their data stolen from online accounts iStock Security researchers are warning that ...

Proxy auto config (PAC) is a feature accepted by all modern browsers, according to Fabio Assolini, a lab expert at Kaspersky. It contains a function to redirect browsers to a specific proxy server. A ...

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