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Will Do Not Track make a difference to web privacy?

Nov

2011

Earlier this week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first drafts of two new privacy standards aimed at simplifying and standardising how websites read and comply with web users’ privacy settings. The Tracking Preference Expression and Tracking Compliance and Scope standards define a ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) mechanism that will allow users to […]

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Fake Social Networking Application Promotes Maldives

Nov

2011

Co-Author: Avdhoot PatilWhen phishing through social media, fake applications are a key technique used by phishers to introduce new kinds of baits. In October, 2011, phishers launched a new fake application named “Maldivian App”. The phishing site was hosted on a free webhosting domain. It should be noted the legitimate site does not provide such […]

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Fake stores on other search engines

Sep

2011

A few weeks ago, I showed that even search engines focused on eliminating spam from their search results fail to remove spam pages leading to fake online stores. I was curious to get a broader pictures of how different search engines deal with this issue. Since the fake stores exist in several languages (English, French, […]

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