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17.3.2009 Microsoft Granted Patent for Tracking Cookies
A patent for Tracking usage behavior in computer systems was granted to Microsoft Tuesday after the software giant explained how it can use invisible images and 'small sized cookies' to surreptitiously track visitors on its own and others' web sites."
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4.5.2006 Expired Cookies Cleaner v1.02
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17.3.2009Google Cookies Expire Sooner, If You Stop Visiting
Google has thrown another bone
to critics of its privacy
practices, announcing it would
no longer set cookies to
expire in the year 2038. Now,
Google will set cookies to
expire two years after a user
last visits the site, with the
expiration date auto-renewing
to two years after each visit...
betanews.com -
17.07.2007EFF questions White House website's privacy policy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S nonprofit legal organization, has sent a letter to White House Counsel demanding the reason for
exempting third party cookies from WhiteHouse.gov's privacy policy. The White House website's privacy policy promises that the site will not
use long-term tracking cookies, which will otherwise allow federal agencies to track users visiting the site. However the embedded YouTube videos in
the site use persistent cookies to track the browsing habits of visitors. The privacy policy was modified to exempt YouTube cookies when this was
pointed out by Chris Soghoian, a cnet blogger.
Read full story.....
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28.01.2009Google cookies to expire after two yearsas long as you don't return
The lifetime of Google's
cookies has been significantly
reduced as part of the
company's efforts to be more
sensitive to growing privacy
concerns. The company
announced today via the
Official Google Blog that it
has pared down the default
cookie duration from its site
from a whopping 31 years
(expiring in 2038) to two
years due to feedback from
users and privacy advocates.
Starting sometime
"in the coming months,"
Google's cookies will
automatically expire after two
years of nonuse, meaning that
any users that come to Google
once, use the search, and
never return will only have
their search preferences
stored on their computers for
the next two years.
Worry not: Google's
cookies do not store users'
search histories. What it does
store, however, are language
preferences, how many search
results per page they like,
and SafeSearch settings. But
privacy is privacy, and some
users are more sensitive to
any information being stored
than others. And for users who
never return, Google believes
there's no point in keeping
that information for 31 years.
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17.07.2007Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat
Ive just received an email
that says I like sheep, but
it wasnt sent by my friend
it was sent by a hacker posing
as my friend. At the Black
Hat security convention,
Robert Graham, the CEO of
errata security, surprised
attendees by hijacking a Gmail
session on camera and reading
the victims email. He went
even further by demonstrating
the attack to us in person and
was able to take over another
journalists Gmail account and
send us sheep-loving
emails.
The attack is actually
quite simple. First Graham
needs to be able to sniff data
packets and in our case the
open Wi-Fi network at the
convention fulfilled that
requirement. He then ran
Ferret to copy all the cookies
flying through the air.
Finally, Graham cloned those
cookies into his browser in
easy point-and-click fashion -
with a home-grown tool called
Hamster.
The attack can hijack
sessions in almost any
cookie-based web application
and Graham has tested it
successfully against popular
webmail programs like Googles
Gmail, Microsofts Hotmail and
Yahoo Mail. He stressed that
since the program just uses
cookies, he only needs an IP
address and usernames and
passwords arent required...
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03.08.2007Could Google Gears Make 'Cookies' Obsolete?
In what appears to be a
serious and genuine attempt to
take the lead in the growing
AJAX market, Google may be
trying to invent something
that has already been invented
before, perhaps several times:
a way to implement a local
data store for Web-based and
remote applications run
through the browser. But
because it's Google that's
doing it, the results this
time around might be
different...
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01.06.2007Firefox hands out cookies from strangers
Firefox suffers from a flaw
that allows attackers to
manipulate the authentication
cookies of virtually any
website, a vulnerability
Bugzilla has deemed severe.
It's the second major
security lapse for the
open-source browser in as many
days.
The defect,
which stems from the way
Firefox writes to the
"location.hostname" property
of the document object model,
can be exploited by a
specially doctored script that
sets variables that normally
wouldn't be accepted when
parsing a regular URL,
according to researcher Michal
Zalewski, who uncovered
Monday's vulnerability as
well.
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15.02.2007Mozilla Ups Firefox Bug Threat, Slates Fix for Feb. 5
Mozilla Corp. bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to "high" Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now
slated for release on Feb. 5. The company's head of security, Window Snyder, confirmed that the browser, when running any of more than 600
add-ons, can be exploited to steal "session information, including session cookies and session history."
Snyder's acknowledgment
followed an update by Gerry Eisenhaur, the researcher who first reported the Firefox problem. "There seems to be some confusion about what exactly
the severity of this vulnerability is," Eisenhaur said on his hiredhacker.com blog. "This is not a chrome privilege escalation, but it
worse
than just leaking some variables. I created another demo to read the sessionstore.js file. This will display information regarding your current
session, windows, tabs, cookies, etc."
neowin.net - 01.02.2008
IE8 'Private Browsing' Confirmed
Microsoft officials have confirmed that the company
will, indeed, provide private browsing, a k a "porn mode," as of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2.
IE 8 Beta 2 is expected to go
to testers later this week.
With its private browsing feature, called "InPrivate," Microsoft is allowing users to cover their
online tracks. But Microsoft is taking this functionality to a more granular level than some expected. With IE 8 Beta 2, Microsoft also is enabling
users to delete selected cookies not simply all of them. That way, when deleting evidence of which sites s/he visited, a user has the option of
keeping the cookies of her/his favorite sites but removing certain others.
InPrivate Blocking informs you about content
that is in a position to observe your browsing history, and allows you to block it.
InPrivate Subscriptions allow you to
augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing to lists of websites to block or allow.
Microsoft officials have said IE 8
Beta 2 will be more focused on consumers, as opposed to developers (who were the target of IE 8 Beta 1). The final version of IE 8 is expected to roll out in November 2008.
jcxp.net - 26.08.2008
A US CERT reminder: The net is an insecure place
If you use Gmail, eBay, MySpace, or any one of dozens of other web-based services, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team wants you to
know you're vulnerable to a simple attack that could give an attacker complete control over your account.
Five weeks after we reported this sad reality, US CERT on Friday warned that the
problem still festers. It said, the world's biggest websites have yet to fix
the gaping security bug, which can bite even careful users who only log in using the secure sockets layer protocol, which is denoted by an HTTPS in
the beginning of browser address window.
US CERT warned that Google, eBay, MySpace, Yahoo, and Microsoft were vulnerable, but
that list is nowhere near exhaustive. Just about any banking website, online social network or other electronic forum that transmits certain types of
security cookies is also susceptible.
The vulnerability stems from websites' use of authentication cookies, which work much the
way an ink-based hand stamp does at your favorite night club. Like the stamp, the cookie acts as assurance to sensitive web servers that the user has
already been vetted by security and is authorized to tread beyond the velvet rope.
winbeta.org - 08.09.2007
Intel Claims Breakthrough With 40Gbps Optical Chips
Intel Corp. researchers are a
step closer to creating chips
that transmit data at high
speeds using light instead of
electrons, but products based
on the technology appear to
remain over the horizon. On
Wednesday, a team of Intel
researchers unveiled a laser
modulator made of silicon that
is capable of encoding data at
speeds up to 40G bits per
second (bps), a significant
increase in speed for the
company.
The new
modulator, which converts
electrical data into light,
opens the door to high-speed
optical interconnects for
computers and, when combined
with 25 hybrid silicon lasers
on a single chip, could be
capable of transmitting
terabits of data per second,
wrote Ansheng Liu, principal
engineer at Intel's Corporate
Technology Group, in a blog
post. Optical interconnects
are desirable because fiber
optics offer more bandwidth
and carry data farther than
copper, which is currently
used to connect chips and move
data inside a computer.
Because they use laser light
to transmit data, optical
interconnects also eliminate
the heat created by resistance
as electrons pass through a
copper trace.
neowin.net - 25.07.2007
Firefox 3 moves into Alpha 6
Less than a month after Alpha
5 went into developers'
hands, the next version of the
Firefox preview build is now
available.
The
browser's SQLite engine has
been updated to version
3.3.17. In addition, the
coding for managing cookies
has been improved to allow 5%
faster execution.
Other fixes include
patching a problem with the
download manager, which caused
display errors with large file
sizes, and "various Places
fixes".
"Places"
is the Firefox 3 system in
charge of bookmarks, history,
and other stored information,
designed to make it easier for
users to locate sites they've
previously visited...
winbeta.org - 04.07.2007
Microsoft again delays identity management server
Microsoft is again delaying the release of the anticipated upgrade to its Identity Lifecycle Manager 2.0 software that has been years in
development.
The software is now slated to ship between January and March 2010, a slip that has angered some partners and
users.
winbeta.org - 25.03.2009
DX10 benchmarks spotted
One of the noticeable
things about yesterday's
Radeon HD launch was that a
number of hardware sites chose
to benchmark the card using a
DX10 pre-release
game.
The
bench in question was a demo
of Call of Juarez, a shooter
that has been out for a while
now but which is imminently to
get a DX10 patch. ATI gave out
this demo to selected press
outlets in Tunis, and while
many avoided it, since both
ATI's drivers and the patch
itself are not quite there
yet, a couple of folks came up
with some interesting stuff.
http://www.guru3d.com/arti
cle/Videocards/431/17/>Guru3d
not only has the benchmarks,
but some great little
comparison videos, too, which
show the difference between
the DX9 and DX10 paths.
There's some nice shadowing
effects on the DX10 path, but
the swanky effects come at the
expense of performance - even
the 768MB 8800 GTX is barely
able to poke its nose above 30
FPS...
winbeta.org - 15.05.2007
Security risks rise as smartphones become smarter
As wireless devices become more numerous within businesses, their convenience will be counterbalanced by an increasing potential for security
problems, according to a Gartner analyst.
New trends in the wireless industry are making it easier for hacking attacks, said John
Girard, a Gartner vice president, who spoke at the IT Security Summit in London on Monday.
winbeta.org - 29.09.2008
Fifteen great Microsoft Office optimization tools
What's the most popular application software in the world? Most likely, Microsoft Office. You use it, your colleagues use it, your relatives use it,
and just about everyone you know uses it.
You certainly aren't getting the most out of it, though. That's where downloads can
make the difference. We've assembled 15 great downloads to help you use Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint more effectively. With these downloads,
you'll be able to cut through e-mail clutter, create PDF files for free, use Excel to run a business, and shrink massive PowerPoint files, among
other things. And they're all free or almost free.
It's time to get downloading and boost your productivity.
winbeta.org - 20.09.2008
Gmail Exploit Allows Hackers to Create Filters
An exploit in Gmail could allow hackers to add filters to peoples' accounts without them even knowing. This could be used to forward received emails.
Steven Musil briefly outlined how this attack can be done:
When you create a filter, a complex URL with several variables is
used to transfer the information from page to page. In a normal browser, much of this information is hidden for security reasons. However, using
Firefox addon called "Live HTTP Headers", a user can see exactly what is sent via the URL.
If you look carefully enough, says Steven,
you can figure out which variables are equivalent to the username, and use that to create the filters.
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To
protect yourself, you should not be logged into your Gmail account when it's not in use, and you should check your filters often to make sure that
they haven't been taken advantage of.
Steven also points out that any other websites using cookies for authentication can be exploited
in the same way. The best method to avoid this happening to you, is to simply stay off of websites that you don't trust.
Be safe!..
jcxp.net - 24.11.2008
VMware to offer low-footprint ESX hypervisor free
VMware said Tuesday it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other
companies that are threatening VMware's lead in the virtualization market.
The next version of ESXi, which will come in about
two weeks, will be available at no cost, said VMware CEO Paul Maritz on a conference call Tuesday to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings.
ESXi is a basic hypervisor, which is technology that separates the OS from server hardware so multiple OSes can run virtually on one physical server.
winbeta.org - 23.07.2008
Internet Explorer 7 Flush
History Feature
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming
Internet Explorer 7 browser
will have a thorough flush
feature that clears its
history and all associated
files stored after a Web site
is accessed.
The new "delete browsing
history" feature under the
"tools" menu will be able to
wipe out five major data
categories, including
temporary Internet files,
cookies, history, form data
and passwords, Enuha
wrote.
A user
can delete all of those at
once or can individually
choose which ones to wipe
through the "delete browsing
history" panel, Enuha
wrote.
jcxp.net - 18.01.2006
Google Tests Using Your Search Data to Tailor Ads to You
Googles massive reservoir of data about online behavior, gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is like the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. It is a resource that might or might not be exploited safely, and there certainly should be a robust debate before the drilling starts.
Google assigns every computer that visits its sites a unique identifying number known as a cookie and records searches and other
activities in an unimaginably large file along with those cookies. The company has maintained that it hasnt used any of that information to draw
inferences about users to target ads.
Until now.
winbeta.org - 27.06.2008
Firefox developers tinker with new security protections (finally)
Developers of the Firefox browser are designing new technologies aimed at protecting users from some of the nastiest and most prevalent forms of
website attacks.
One protection is designed to minimize end users' risk to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and cross-site
request forgeries (CSRFs), both of which subvert basic internet security by exploiting the often misplaced web of trust that exists between two or
more different sites. The protection would allow developers of one site to explicitly define which domains are allowed to initiate or answer
cross-site requests for code, cookies and other site resources.
winbeta.org - 21.05.2008
