Updated: 2010-12-16 05:01:03
Many information security blogs, including this one, have discussed the recent data breach of gossip site Gawker and problems associated with leaked passwords. The story has demonstrated some of the risks associated with password storage. Gawker did store passwords using a form of encryption, but it was a weak algorithm and thus the encrypted data could [...]
Updated: 2010-12-09 13:30:45
For a while, it looked like the crypto wars had been won. The victory in the crypto wars didn’t last long. Today, there are a slew of laws in place in various countries controlling the use of strong encryption.
Updated: 2010-12-06 16:14:02
Lawsuit filed to stop sniffing of browser history by major porn website. Technique is shown to be surprisingly widespread.
Updated: 2010-12-03 19:03:19
Schneier on Security: Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?. I have been avoiding talking about the TSA airport screening insanity, but wanted to post a link to this excellent essay.
Updated: 2010-12-03 16:32:19
Some Internet tracking companies form partnership to enable opt out of tracking and editing of profiles.
Updated: 2010-11-23 19:33:21
I am very excited that we have finally released our new free “Anonymizer Nevercookie” product. You can download it here from our facebook account. It enhances the private browsing mode in Firefox to protect against a whole range of new kinds of tracking cookies that currently are nearly impossible to delete.
Updated: 2010-11-05 16:45:58
This article on The Consumerist reports that Capital One provides different car loan rates based on the browser you use when visiting their site. I suspect that there are some strong demographic trends among the users of various browsers. It would be interesting to see if they give different rates to the same browser in [...]
