Buzzwords like privacy, cookies, tracking, etc. are appearing on every news outlet that cares about the web. But they usually just scratch the surface, leaving a lot of the underlying machinery in the dark and still hidden away. … I’ll attempt to describe the different pieces that comprise online tracking, in a way that goes beyond the cookies and scripts.
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There are now many smaller players in the search game that are growing rapidly. Google’s market share has declined from 78.7 percent in February 2017 to slightly below 70 percent in February 2018.
A few of these search engines, including DuckDuckGo and StartPage began as normal search engines with no privacy enhancements. However, after they realized the massive risk associated with storing so much data, they decided to take a different approach.
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Modern-day browsers can not only save your passwords for you—they can recommend new, secure passwords whenever you need to create a new one, and can even warn you when you’re using the same password across multiple accounts.
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A new development in fibre optics could make internet speeds up to 100 times faster – by detecting light that has been twisted into a spiral. … By twisting light into a spiral, engineers effectively create a third dimension for light to carry information: the level of orbital angular momentum, or spin. “It’s like DNA, if you look at the double helix spiral,” said Min Gu from RMIT University. “The more you can use angular momentum the more information you can carry.”
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We connect to public wi-fi systems and think that we are not giving away the sites we are visiting, as we are using HTTPs connections. But think again, our DNS requests reveal the sites we are connecting to. Also the start of the TLS connection actually reveals the site we are connecting to. … so Cloudflare have just announced that they have implemented ESNI (encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension). This aims to stop ISPs and public wi-fi providers from snooping on your Web accesses (or anyone else who listens to your network packets).
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One constant throughout my career has been my fascination with what can be learned about an organization from basic public records. The aggregation of a multitude of small pieces of information can paint a picture that is sometimes startling in its completeness. Then some holes can be filled-in with small logical leaps and inferences.
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More of your data is available for the taking than you might imagine. Here’s a primer on the best products for securing your digital privacy and tips for taking back control of your info.
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The improvements with this latest generation of wifi are in two key areas: Raw speed and throughput (if wifi was a highway, we’d be talking about a higher maximum speed limit for vehicles, as well as more lanes to handle more vehicles at once). Wi-Fi 6 will support 8K video streaming…
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Components of the decentralized web may already be emerging, but they are not ready for prime time. Cloudflare, a company that makes its money by hosting the internet’s contents on far-flung servers and uses algorithms to deliver them to users as fast as possible, wants to help change that. The first step is what the company calls a “gateway,” to which anyone can connect a website and begin serving data stored in a peer-to-peer file-sharing network called the Interplanetary File System(IPFS).
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web … is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the web. “The intent is world domination” … “It’s a historical moment.” Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people’s data to be misused by political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to get this digital idyll into the real world. …
The difference here is that, on Solid, all the information is under his control. Every bit of data he creates or adds on Solid exists within a Solid pod–which is an acronym for personal online data store.
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Air miles are easily available online which are issued by airlines including Delta, British Airways, Emirates, and Alaska Air, among others. After investigating Dark Web marketplaces including Dream Market, Olympus, and the Berlusconi Market, Bischoff found that sellers are flogging hundreds of thousands of frequent flier points.
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Regardless of how you use the internet, it’s nearly guaranteed that you are being tracked in some way. Natalie Triedman recently shared how people, often unknowingly, are sharing their location. We aren’t saying that you should freak out and stop using the internet, but it’s a good idea to be smart about your browsing.
Follow these tips to start protecting your information online. We’ve included some quick steps that everyone can do, as well as some more difficult and advanced methods for keeping your web data secure.
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With the exception–perhaps–of your therapist or significant other, no one has more power to learn your secrets than your internet service provider. An ISP can see every website that you choose to access. …But new tech fixes are plugging the privacy holes that the government won’t.
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Note taking apps can store your notes in the cloud and sync them across multiple devices. As long as you have the internet, you have your notes. Second, note taking apps have search functionality. In a matter of seconds, you can find whatever notes you need, even if they are years old. Third, the best note taking apps let you snap pictures and save them as notes, upload files, record audio, and clip pages from the web. I’ve never seen a paper notebook that lets you dictate notes using your voice, either.
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Today the internet is much more like Disneyland. If I’m building a restaurant in Disneyland and Disneyland thinks I’m making too much money, they may raise the rent or change the rules. That’s what building on Facebook or Google and Apple is right now.
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According to USA Today, 75% of the world’s most popular websites have tracking code on their pages. I am not alone in my concern about maintaining some sort of privacy online.
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Brands have understood how storytelling is key to connect and build a relationship with their online customers. With an offer that doesn’t stop expanding, online products need to up their game and spark the consumer’ eye.
Online shops can now create the illusion of an actual narrative to fulfill their customers’ desires . The race for the most memorable catalogue experience has started.
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Most organizations are spending their increased dollars on the same type of solutions that they implemented in the past. But these legacy solutions are no longer effective at preventing modern breaches. Today’s attackers use new methods that old security systems don’t detect.
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Here are a few different ways your account is most likely to get hijacked.
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Chronicle will initially offer two services: The VirusTotal anti-malware intelligence service, and a cybersecurity intelligence and analytics platform.
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The email service provider soon issued an apology outlining what they perceived to be an unexpected “Nation sponsored” attack attack. It soon became clear that this was a clear case of hacktivism rather than activism.
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These attacks are successful as often as 3% of the time, and the costs quickly add up for businesses.
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Fileless security threats—also known as “non-malware” attacks—leverage RAM, the Windows system registry, and even PowerShell and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) module to kick off multi step “attack chains.”
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It’s important not to be swayed by fake accounts or waste your time arguing with them, and identifying bots in a Twitter thread has become a strange version of the Turing test. Accusing posters of being bots has even become an oddly satisfying way to insult their intelligence.
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Twitter’s unlikely resurgence can be attributed to four major factors: Its acceptance it would never be Facebook, leading to a decision to focus on news as Facebook pulled back.
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New Wi-Fi routers will come with stronger protections for the data that flows between your computers, phones or smart home devices and your internet connection. It will also boost security in workplace
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At Code Conference every year, KPCB’s Mary Meeker delivers her Internet Trends Report — a State of the Union for the tech industry. … it comes packed with data and numbers sprinkled over 250+ slides. Here’s everything you can learn from this year’s report summed up in 12 minutes or less.
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If your router is infected with malicious software, all your internet-connected devices become vulnerable, including your smartphone, computer, smart watch, television and Amazon Echo.
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Recently, a number of websites have shown this screen to users out of nowhere. The screen impersonates the MetaMask user interface…
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