Firewall and Privatizing Proxy: macOS Fortress

macOS-Fortress is a Firewall, Blackhole, and Privatizing Proxy for Trackers, Attackers, Malware, Adware, and Spammers. It is Kernel-level, OS-level, and client-level security for macOS. Built to address a steady stream of attacks visible on snort and server logs, as well as blocks ads, malicious...

PayPal Revises Privacy Policy, User Agreement Policy

PayPal announced that it is changing both its privacy and user agreement policies, adding tweaks to its customer identification program and the way it collects and stores its customers’ personal information. The changes will take effect on April 1. Under the new policy, Paypal may collect...

Evercookie Creator: FTC Cookie Inquiry Would Be Too Narrow

Samy Kamkar has always been prescient. He first gained notoriety by showing how nascent social networks like MySpace could be used to spread malware rapidly among a population of millions now billions of users. His worm for MySpace, dubbed the ‘Samy Worm’ earned him a visit from law enforcement...

History Sniffing Case Dismissed Because Defendant Fails to Quantify Losses

A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough...

Google Fixes Six High-Risk Bugs in Chrome, Pays Out $6k in Bounties

Google has fixed seven security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, including six high-priority flaws. The new release of Chrome is version 12.0.742.112 and also includes an updated version of Flash. The latest version of Chrome is the third major update from the company since just the end of...

Google Fixes 15 Bugs in Chrome, Gives Users Ability to Delete Flash Cookies

Google has fixed more than a dozen security bugs in its Chrome browser, including five high-severity vulnerabilities and one that qualified for the company’s highest bug bounty, a $3133.7 reward. The new version of Chrome has fixes for 15 separate security vulnerabilities, the most critical of...

Chrome Stable Release

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 12 to the Stable Channel for all platforms. Chrome 12.0.742.91 includes a number of new features and updates, including: Hardware accelerated 3D CSS New Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files Ability to delete...

Adobe Boosts Privacy Protections with Flash Player Update

Adobe released an update to its Flash Player that it says will make it easier for users to manage their online privacy. The company released Flash Player Version 10.3 on Thursday. The update to the common rich media player includes support for a new cross platform application program interface AP...

Google Fixes Two Chrome Bugs, Adds Flash 10.3 to Browser

Google has released an updated version of its Chrome browser, which includes fixes for two security vulnerabilities as well as a new version of the Adobe Flash player. The latest version of Chrome is just a small incremental update of the browser, and there were no bugs found by external...

Chrome, IE to Give Users Ability to Delete Flash Cookies

The upcoming release of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 will give users of most of the major browsers the ability to delete Flash cookies in much the same way that they’re able to erase normal Web cookies, thanks to a better integration with privacy settings in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. The...

Many Sites Using Flash Cookies to Silently Track Users

A huge number of Web sites are employing a little-known tracking mechanism to gather information on visitors and are failing to disclose the practice in their privacy policies, according to a new paper from a group of university researchers. The technique employs cookies generated by the Adobe...

Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.x - Flash Cookie Predictable File Location

Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.x - Flash Cookie Predictable File Location source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8900/info Macromedia Flash Player is reported to store Flash cookies .sol files in a predictable location on client systems. Other attacks are possible given the ability to store conte...

Macromedia Flash Player 6.0.x - Flash Cookie Predictable File Location

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8900/info Macromedia Flash Player is reported to store Flash cookies .sol files in a predictable location on client systems. Other attacks are possible given the ability to store content on a system in a predictable location, such as referencing the conte...