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As September moves into October, Hampton Roads residents anticipate a loss of beach time and shorter days, but one group always scores big: defense contractors.

Major web browsers have moved to stop using a software company that certified secure websites, three weeks after The Washington Post reported its connections to a U.S. military contractor.

Major web browsers moved Wednesday to stop using a mysterious software company that certified websites were secure, three weeks after The Washington Post reported its connections to a U.S. military contractor.

The companys name is TrustCor Systems, and it is trusted by several web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox and others, as a root certificate authority.

TrustCor Systems has links to a company known for spying on your messages and sending them to government agencies.

An offshore company that is trusted by the major web browsers and other tech companies to vouch for the legitimacy of websites has connections to contractors for U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement, according to security researchers, documents and interviews.

A former business associate of Rodney Joffe launched a Trump-Russia data-mining project in 2016 at the direction of the technology executive, a task the witness said made him feel “extremely uncomfortable” because it felt like “opposition research.”

Here you can find the list of recently banned Android apps from the Google Play Store due to data harvesting concerns. If you have any of them installed on your phone, you may promptly uninstall them.

Security researchers have identified 11 apps that integrated a software development toolkit (SDK) from a sketchy company gathering a wide range of personal information and data, including location, phone numbers and more.

Google has pulled dozens of apps used by millions of users after finding that they covertly harvested data..