NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden - titled ‘Tor Stinks’ in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser. The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor...

Google Implements Do Not Track in Chrome 23

Nearly two years after other browser vendors implemented it, Google on Tuesday finally released a version of Chrome that supports the Do Not Track functionality that helps users prevent Web sites from following their movements around the Web. Google’s move to include the technology is a response ...

JonDoFox 2.5.3 - Browser Optimized for anonymous and secure web surfing

JonDoFox 2.5.3 - Browser Optimized for anonymous and secure web surfing The JonDoFox research team has uncovered a new attack on web browsers: Affected are the web browsers Firefox, Chrome and Safari. By a hidden call over of a URL with HTTP authentication data, third party sites could track a...

Collusion Firefox Add-On Paints Picture of Web Tracking

Most Internet users at this point understand that Web sites routinely and extensively track the behavior and movements of their visitors. It’s an unsettling reality. But few people have a handle on just how widespread and pervasive the practice is. Now, a developer has released an add-on for...

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...

Microsoft Adds Tracking Protection to IE 9

Microsoft has pushed out a new release candidate of Internet Explorer 9 that includes two new privacy protections designed to enable consumers to prevent tracking by some Web sites. The new IE 9 release candidate has two separate, but related, technologies aimed at giving users more control over...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Private Browsing feature in Apple Safari before 4.0 on Windows does not remove cookies from the alternate cookie store in unspecified circumstances upon 1 disabling of the feature or 2 exit of the application, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users via a cookie...