Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn't save or refer to website cookies, browsing history, or temporary files. Privacy-conscious people rely on it to help cloak their identities and prevent websites from tracking their previous steps. Now, a software consultant has devised ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission.
Privacy Badger was launched in an alpha version less than three months ago, ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
People accessing the Internet over open WiFi networks are now vulnerable to having their WordPress webpage hijacked even with two-step authentication enabled. This new vulnerability was found by Yan Zhu, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Zhu found that when accessing WordPress, the site sends a cookie in plain text ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
With every website you visit, you’re vulnerable to malicious hackers out to steal your surfing history, passwords, email access, bank account numbers, medical info, and more. And the “big browsers” don’t do enough to stop it.
But now you can protect yourself before you go on the Web – with WhiteHat ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Launching a new Web app today comes with a few certainties, and one of them is, “I will be a target for hackers” for sure. So when an app as large and as high profile as Google+ launches, it will surely be one of the top targets for malicious activity. ...
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