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Global security vendor Sophos claims to have discovered a new strain of Windows ransomware which is the final executable payload in a manual attack wh...

Vulnerability in popular browsers could be used to track, profile users online May 17, 2021 Vulnerability in popular browsers could be used to track, profile users online A vulnerability affecting desktop versions of four popular web browsers could be exploited by advertisers, malicious actors, and other third parties to track and profile users online even if they switch browsers, use incognito mode or a VPN, researcher and developer Konstantin Darutkin claims. Scheme flooding Darutkin and his ...

Konstantin DarutkinResearcher and Developer Published 05/13/2021 In this article we introduce a scheme flooding vulnerability, explain how the exploit works across four major desktop browsers and show why its a threat to anonymous browsing. DISCLAIMER: FingerprintJS does not use this vulnerability in our products and does not provide third-party tracking services. We focus on stopping fraud and support modern privacy trends for removing third-party tracking entirely. We believe that vulnerabili...

> The Pirate Bays main domain has been inaccessible to most people for two days. There is no official word from the sites operators, but history shows that the outage is likely being caused by a technical issue. Meanwhile, some of the sites many proxies and its official Tor domain are still working fine. The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for nearly 48 hours now. For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning...

Apr 20, 2021 11:16 EDT with 0 comments The privacy-focused Linux operating system, Tails, has been upgraded to version 4.18. It comes with several changes and includes fixes for known security vulnerabilities. Due to the nature of Tails and its focus on privacy, the team that produces the OS has urged everyone to upgrade to Tails 4.18 as soon as possible. If you’ve ever used Tails, you’ll have noticed the ‘Synchronizing the system’s clock’ notification after you connect ...

"FLoC": Googles new tracking method faces flak Google has announced FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) technology to provide a more privacy-focused way to track users and serve ads to them Saturday April 10, 2021 10:49 AM, IANS New Delhi: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has slammed the new ad tracking method by Google, saying it is bad for privacy and puts the users in a group based on their browsing history, and any website can get that group ID to target and fingerprint them. Googl...

DuckDuckGo asks people to block Googles new tracking method News Published: April 10, 2021 11:32 AM IST DuckDuckGo has slammed Google’s new ad tracking method, saying it is bad for privacy and puts the users in a group based on their browsing history, and any website can get that group ID to target and fingerprint them. Google’s new FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) is a technology to provide users with a more privac...

Feb 24, 2021 15:30 EST with 0 comments Protect your privacy. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody from watching your Internet connection and learning what sites you visit, ...

22 February 2021, 7:35 pm EST By   ( Screenshot from Tor Browser ) Developers of the highly used privacy-focused browser known as the Brave web browser had to frantically scamper in order to fix a certain bug that actually prevented the browser from leaking certain visited Tor addresses in the DNS traffic. The popular anonymous browser known as Brave had actually spo...

Tails staat voor "The amnesic incognito live system" en is een live Linux-distributie die zich richt op privacy en anonimiteit. Als basis maakt het gebruik van Debian GNU/Linux en het voegt daar een Gnome-omgeving met Tor, Tor Browser, Pidgin,...