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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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TLD4: Less hype, more history

02

Jul

2011

Quite rightly, such notables as Paul Ducklin and our own Randy Abrams have poured scorn on the idea of the “indestructible botnet”: indeed, Randy remarked:“Calling the botnet indestructible is tantamount to calling the Internet unsustainable . I suspect that, in time, we’ll discover the ‘T’ in TDL stands for ‘Titanic,’ and a currently unseen iceberg […]

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An ethical dilemma

29

May

2011

Update: It seems like the initial article is inaccurate and that Paul Rellis never made any such comments about a 14 year old breaking into the X-Box live servers and have not offered to mentor him http://kotaku.com/5805742/microsoft-is-helping-an-xbox-live-hacker-develop-his-talent TekGoblin reports (http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/) that a teenager who broke into the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gameservers last […]

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