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Total Cookie Protection is a major anti-tracking advance in Firefox that confines cookies to the site where they were created.
This blog post brings more technical details on CacheFlow: a threat that we first reported about in December 2020. We described a huge campaign composed of dozens of malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions with more than three million installations in total.
Why blame-and-shaming people for missing homograph attacks is pointless.
This post is built around my paper (presented to/at the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering) devoted to privacy assessment in web standards. After the previous one (Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards) this is the next insight in this domain. While I point out the
Private mode browsing is a useful way to cover your online tracks. Just don’t read too much into the word ‘private.’
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry's failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email...
"Evil maid" scenario explained.
Evaluates browsers on how often and how much info is sent to centralized backend. Brave is best, followed by Firefox. Implies some settings to disable to preserve privacy.
The California attorney general’s office released its second set of modifications for the state’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act, or CCPA, one of which gives browser makers Safari and Firefox wide latitude in shaping consumer privacy, experts say.
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity reported to health insurance provider Blue Shield of California that its Web site was flagged by multiple security products as serving malicious content. Blue Shield quickly removed the unauthorized code. An investigation determined it was injected by…
Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself | Digital Trends
What looks like a win for privacy may be just the opposite
Safari’s main weapon against third-party tracking is called Intelligent Tracking Prevention.
The web, and big tech at large, is tracking our every move, habit, and facial expression. As developers who are also users, we both contribute to the surveillance system and are exploited by it. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Three out of the nine exploit kits active today are using fileless attacks to infect victims.
Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.
Good but lengthy explainer. Middle section is a bit technical.
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web
Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?
Is your browser extension tracking your every move online?
Ethics smell: "His defense of Nacho boiled down to this: It’s just the way the Internet works."