I have dealt with Firefox security add-ons about a month ago and promised to write another guide this time dealing with privacy related add-ons. So what’s the core difference between privacy and security anyway? I personally consider privacy to be a part of security, which explains for instance why Ghacks has only a security category, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Last week a bill was tabled in the American senate that would allow the Department of Justice to take out a court order against sites accused of infringing copyright. Google’s Erik Schmidt came out strongly against the bill in London on the 18th. Is this an attempt on Google to do no evil, or is [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

>In light of Sony’s security breach last week it’s clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security standards, for instance the authentication of email which people have been talking about for years.  Not to mention the fairly obvious increase that’s [...]

Categories: Advice

I’m well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have to keep repairing problems in Windows one of the best ways to achieve this goal is to keep installing software into it. There’s [...]

Categories: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Hacking, Microsoft, Online Services, Yahoo

When it comes to social networking these days, privacy is of the utmost importance. Nowadays, the most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. If you use either of these websites for anything then it is important that you understand the privacy settings fully. If you do not then you are putting yourself at [...]

Categories: Facebook

It’s got the innocuous title of “Instant Personalisation” but this new Facebook feature is yet another major blow to your privacy and security on the social network. Facebook has been plagued with privacy scares over the last couple of years and the latest is a feature which is going live for all Facebook users in [...]

Categories: Facebook

Websites and services can use several techniques to identify a specific user visiting their properties, or third party properties they are affiliated with. Among the most common ones are standard HTML cookies, but also so called Flash cookies, also known as Local Shared Objects. Evercookie takes this a step further by dropping as many cookies [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

In a story that seems to have surprised nobody except Facebook, the developers of some applications for the world’s largest and most popular social networking website have been selling user details, harvested by their apps. The user data, which is gathered quite legitimately by apps on the site, was found to have been sold to [...]

Categories: Facebook

Whenever you visit a website it may happen that the website connects to other sites. By doing so, it may reveal information about you. A popular example is Facebook Connect, which leaks information to Facebook whenever you visit a website that is powered by it. In short, whenever you visit a page that uses Facebook [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Google Chrome, Security