We have covered Phorm before at Ghacks. It is a very scary cooperation between several Internet Service Providers and advertising companies. The Internet Service Providers install tracking cookies on user systems and create a unique profile for each user which is then used by the advertising agencies to display targeted advertisement to the user. Especially [...]

Tags: advertisement, firefox phorm, firephorm, internet service provider, phorm, privacy, tracking, tracking cookies
Categories: Browsing, Security, firefox

An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom’s validation of Phorm, also known as (aka 121Media), Deep Packet Inspection. According to that report 18000 users were chosen as test objects without their knowledge or consent. In that 2-week period more than 18 [...]

Tags: 121 media, british telecom, phorm, wikileaks
Categories: Security

One form of data mining is behavioral targeting which means that ads are served that fit into the surfing pattern of a user. Spending your time on teen forums will deliver advertisement for teens to the user and someone who is checking the latest stock market news will be delivered financial news. This is a [...]

Tags: antiphorm, data mining, phorm, software, Windows
Categories: Security, The Web, software