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How to mitigate the “Supercookies”

23

Aug

2011

“Supercookies” (Local Shared Object), or flash cookies as they are otherwise commonly called, and their implication on the privacy of Internet users have been a hot topic in the security- news blogs lately. ‘Cookies‘, as most of you already know, are small text files that are used to keep small pieces of browsing information stored […]

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Can Germany’s data protection laws forestall facial recognition?

10

Aug

2011

Facial recognition technology is a hot topic and this recently caught my attention: German authorities have suggested that Facebook’s “facial recognition” feature is illegal. From Deutsche Welle:Hamburg’s data protection official Johannes Caspar claims that the software violates both German and European Union data protection laws and that Facebook users don’t know how to delete the […]

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What has happened to DNS Security?

19

Jul

2011

It was not so long ago we saw Google blacklist complete sets of subdomains such as the co.cc domains. (http://www.seroundtable.com/co-cc-google-removal-13644.html) These were known to be hosting malicious websites. About the same time, I also started to investigate new ways of identifying domains connected to malicious content by analyzing the DNS information. During my research I […]

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