{"id":245616,"date":"2018-01-22T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245616"},"modified":"2018-01-22T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:07:59","slug":"opera-mobile-browsers-get-crypto-mining-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245616-opera-mobile-browsers-get-crypto-mining-protection.html","title":{"rendered":"Opera mobile browsers get crypto mining protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has added cryptocurrency mining protection to its mobile browsers.<\/p>\n<p>The protection prevents malicious scripts from hijacking a device&#8217;s resources to mine cryptocurrency while browsing.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious scripts can cause your device to run slowly and heat up, due to the increased workload of mining.<\/p>\n<p>The new security feature is activate by default when turning on the ad blocker on Opera Mini and Opera for Android.<\/p>\n<p>Users can check if their device affected by cryptojacking by visiting Opera&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptojackingtest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cryptojacking Test website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BTpPp4wLVzU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/243342-most-popular-operating-systems-for-pcs-and-smartphones.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Most popular operating systems for PCs and smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has added cryptocurrency mining protection to its mobile browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":180220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48058,48448,207,463],"class_list":["post-245616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cryptojacking","tag-mobile-browsers","tag-opera","tag-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245620,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245616\/revisions\/245620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}