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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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions.
The service, called KISSmetrics, is used by sites to track the number ...
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
FireShepherd, a small console program that floods the nearby wireless network with packets designed to turn off FireSheep, effectively shutting down nearby FireSheep programs every 0.5 sec or so, making you and the people around you secure from most people using FireSheep. The program kills the current version of FireSheep ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
A new add-on program for the popular Firefox Web browser is stirring up longstanding concerns over how many websites electronically identify their users.It’s a problem associated with the use of wireless networks. The add-on program, Firesheep, is designed to make it easy to intercept browser “cookies” used by popular Web ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others. evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms ...
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