Q&A: Evercookie Creator Samy Kamkar

Samy Kamkar has been making quite a bit of noise lately, beginning with his release of the Evercookie earlier this month and continuing with his talk at the SecTor conference this week on novel methods for stealing users’ cookies without any browser bugs. In this interview, he discusses both of...

Security Week In Review: Evercookies, SQL Slammer and a Flood of Patches

This week seemed to be all about the numbers as a handful of reports were released, disclosing new stats on phishing, information theft and spam. Evercookies, the inside story of SQL Slammer, and of course, the usual array of patches, rounded out the week. Read on for the full week in review. The...

Researchers Find Methods to Kill Persistent 'Evercookie'

The persistent method that security researcher Samy Kamkar introduced last week for storing tracking data on a user’s machine, known as the “Evercookie,” is even more worrisome when used on mobile devices, according to another researcher’s analysis. The Evercookie is a simple method for forcing a...

Researcher Claims 'Evercookie' Can't Be Removed

Call it “Frankencookie:” a security researcher has released a tracking cookie that he claims is nearly impossible to remove. Dubbed “evercookie,” it is designed to raise awareness about the ease with which Web site operators can evade privacy tools designed to eliminate shield visitors’ privacy...