Security feature bypass

The vantage6 technology enables to manage and deploy privacy enhancing technologies like Federated Learning FL and Multi-Party Computation MPC. It is possible to find out usernames from the response time of login requests. This could aid attackers in credential attacks. Version 4.2.0 patches this...

New Mozilla Privacy Initiative to Include High-Capacity Tor Relays

Mozilla is starting a new initiative that the company says is designed to incorporate more privacy enhancing features into Firefox and the other Mozilla products. The project, known as Polaris, involves collaboration with The Tor Project and the Center for Democracy and Technology and will involv...

Yahoo Drops Support for Do Not Track

Yahoo, one of the first large Web companies to recognize the Do Not Track header from browsers on its properties, has now backtracked and said it will no longer support DNT. Officials said the lack of an industry standard for DNT that’s effective led to the decision. DNT is an option in the major...

IE9 Adds Application Reputation Filter

The latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer promises to make it harder for malicious hackers to push dodgy Web applications onto end user systems, with a new Application Reputation filter. In their latest post, the Internet Explorer Weblog, the company details the ways in which IE 9 and i...

Microsoft Submits Tracking Protection Proposal to W3C

Microsoft has submitted its proposal for web tracking protection to the W3C for consideration as a standard, hoping to get the organization’s stamp of approval for its browser privacy technology. The proposal is in the earliest stages of the process and has not been approved, a process that can...

Chaos Communication Congress

Berlin, Germany One of the security world’s most venerable conferences, the Chaos Communications Congress CCC is an annual gathering for hackers sponsored by the Chaos Computer Club. First held in 1984, the event now draws thousands of hackers, intellectuals, academics and Utopians to snowy Berli...