Cisco Pulls Back on Routers' 'Supplemental Privacy Policy'

Cisco appears to have retracted a controversial addition to its privacy policy that allowed the company to track data, including complete Internet histories, for users of its Linksys E2700, E3500 and E4500 routers. The policy revisions were part of an automatic firmware update that outraged users...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...

Privacy (Cookie Blocking)

The Privacy tab contains settings for cookies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer by various sites that you visit either directly first-party or indirectly third-party through ad banners, for example. A cookie can contain any data that a site wishes to store. It is often used to track...

Gator/GAIN Spyware Installed

The remote host has Gator/GAIN Spyware Installed. Gator tracks the sites that users visit and forwards that data back to the company SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2003 Jeff Adams Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2005-3049: Undefined Security Weakness

PhpMyFaq 1.5.1 stores data files under the web document root with insufficient access control and predictable filenames, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to the data/trackingDATE file...