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Boffins based in Belgium have found that a DNS-based technique for bypassing defenses against online tracking has become increasingly common and represents a growing threat to both privacy and security. In a research paper to be presented in July at the 21st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, KU Leuven-affiliated researchers Yana Dimova, Gunes Acar, Wouter Joosen, and Tom Van Goethem, and privacy consultant Lukasz Olejnik, delve into increasing adoption of CNAME-based tracking, which abuses DNS records to erase the distinction between first-party and third-party contexts.
Mozilla this week announced improved user privacy in Firefox 86, with the introduction of a new feature aimed at preventing the tracking of users from site to site. Called Total Cookie Protection and built into Enhanced Tracking Protection Strict Mode, the new feature was designed to confine cookies to the websites that created them, and complements the Supercookie Protections that Mozilla introduced in Firefox 85 last month.
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. In this paper we introduce a novel tracking mechanism that misuses a simple yet ubiquitous browser feature: favicons.
Apps that tracked and sold people's whereabouts were more prevalent than perhaps first thought. A report out today has identified 450 Android apps downloaded 1.7 billion times that used SDKs to track the location of smartphones.
Apple says it will roll out a new privacy control in the spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people. Although Apple didn't provide a specific date, the general timetable disclosed Thursday means a long-awaited feature known as App Tracking Transparency will be part of an iPhone software update likely to arrive in late March or some point in April.
Over the years, penetration testing has had to change and adapt alongside the IT environments and technology that need to be assessed. We can see whether the effects that recent trends have on pen testing are long term, or simply a temporary shift, and how they affect the continuing evolution of penetration testing.
Iridium announced commercial availability of the Iridium Edge Solar - a secure, maintenance-free, solar-powered remote asset tracking and management device. With over-the-air configuration capabilities, the Iridium Edge Solar is ideal for Vessel Monitoring Systems, fisheries management, tracking of freight shipping containers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition applications, monitoring of oil and gas pipelines and heavy equipment telematics data reporting.
Apple has new features in iOS 14 and macOS 11 Safari that disable trackers from learning which websites you visit to protect your privacy. Apple has introduced a new privacy tracking feature in Safari in iOS 14 and macOS 11 Big Sur that will let you know which websites are tracking you and display the trackers that Safari has blocked.
Google's Privacy Sandbox took another knock today as Marketers for an Open Web wrote to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority requesting a block on the technology's launch. Google is walking a tightrope with its Privacy Sandbox project.
That's why FileCloud put security at the forefront of FileCloud 20.2, the latest version of its enterprise product. FileCloud builds in security for remote workers from the beginning.