Current browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox have a wide range of possibilities in terms of extensions and plugins. Many of these additional tools we have also help us improve our privacy and security. In this article we are going to talk about Behave , a new extension that is available for these two popular browsers. Their mission is to alert on port scans and local attacks. We will explain what it consists of.
Behave, the extension that alerts of problems
As we have indicated we can make use of many browser extensions that are intended to protect us from attacks. One of them is Behave, which is available for both Chrome and Firefox. It is a complement that alerts us about port scans and also access to private IP addresses.
The mission of this extension is to reveal when a website we visit scans local ports or accesses private IP addresses . In this way it allows us to navigate safer and thus avoid problems. This is something that can happen on occasion and we have seen above that popular sites like eBay can carry out these actions.
A website could check the ports a software uses to find out if the user is browsing from a remote desktop, for example. This is something that can affect privacy. Now with this extension we can avoid this, since it warns us in case a website uses this type of practice.
What this extension does that we can use in both Firefox and Chrome is to monitor all the pages that we browse. It begins a search for any anomaly and if it detects certain activity of this type, it sends us a warning.
How to use Behave
Its use is very simple. The first thing we have to do is download the extension from the official Chrome or Firefox website . As we always say, our advice is to install this type of software from legitimate sites. Avoid doing so from third-party sites that may contain maliciously modified software.
Once we have installed Behave in the browser, either in Chrome or Firefox, it will add an icon to the bar , at the top. In the event that it finds any anomaly, that icon changes color. We can click on it for more information.
What Behave does is list the IP addresses and ports, as well as the requests originated. It also has a series of simple configurations where we can choose the threshold for port scanning, enable or disable supervision, notifications, etc.
In short, Behave is an interesting extension for those users who are looking for greater control when visiting web pages. It is interesting to have programs that protect us and prevent the entry of threats that put us at risk. There are many attacks that we can suffer and precisely browsers are an important gateway. We leave you a tutorial where we explain how to choose a browser for security.