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The Smart Paranoid's Guide to Using Google

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Google is nearly everyone's best friend. But have you ever stopped to think about just how much Google knows about you? Do you realize that Google may have recorded and stored every single search term you have ever punched into its search box? Chances are some of those searches could be soberingly damaging to your reputation. What about Gmail?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 26, 2010

10 Tips for Safer Browsing: Supercookies and New Dangers

Who would have thought that a digital copier wasn't secure? And did you know that new technologies make it easier than ever to track your online trail? Keeping safe online used to be simple: Use anti-virus software. Not any more. There's a whole new generation of threats to your online security and privacy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2010

School Spy Program Used on Students Contains Hacker-Friendly Security Hole

A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2010

History stealing 2.0 - I know where you live

Two developers have refined techniques for rummaging through browser histories to the extent that web sites can now find out what articles a user has recently read on news sites, their exact postcode and which search terms that have entered into search engines. The developers, Artur Janc and Lukasz Olejnik, have now refined their JavaScript code to carry out history stealing six times faster than previous methods.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2010

Facebook's Privacy Battle: How to Put Your Profile on Lockdown

Over the past few months, Facebook has repeatedly found itself in hot water over its privacy protocols. But in the past week, the simmering resentment of many users burst into flames as the site's privacy protocol became even more complicated and it began linking user information to other sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2010

76% Of Users Exposing Their Browsing Histories

This is actually a very old flaw as it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 21, 2010

Sergey Brin: 'We screwed up' on Street View Wi-Fi grab

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the company "screwed up" when it equipped its world-roving Street View cars with software code that spent three years capturing personal data from open Wi-Fi networks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 20, 2010

Electronic Frontier Foundation knocks web browser privacy

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 19, 2010

EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints

Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 18, 2010

Google says Street View cars collected WiFi data by mistake

Google has admitted that it mistakenly collected data sent over WiFi networks using its Street View cars gathering images for Google's controversial Street View service.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 17, 2010

Consolidating access control yields big payoffs

Imagine how tedious life would be if you needed a separate, specially issued debit card for each grocery store, gas station, restaurant, pharmacy, department store or Web retailer that you patronized

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2010

How to Choose a Good Password

Why choose good passwords? A good password will help prevent malicious people from accessing information that they are not authorized for. It will also help ensure that someone won't use your password for their dirty work (and try to shift the blame on you). It will protect the information you have access to and the people that could be hurt if that information ended up in the wrong hands.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 11, 2010

Technology security myths debunked

Think you can hide behind the privacy of an "unlisted" cell phone number? Think again. Maybe you believe you don't need security software on a Mac or iPad. You'd swear that Firefox is the safest browser in town. Wrong on both counts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 04, 2010

The Mysterious And Scary BitTorrent Monitoring Site

A worrying site which claims to allow users to search BitTorrent networks for IP addresses being used to share torrents has appeared in recent days. The site, which has a very paranoid feel, also contains numerous security-related documents from ISPs and other sources. An apparently related video being mailed to studios is even more creepy. But is all as it seems?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2010

Privacy Tool Sidesteps Google's Data Collection

Privacy advocate Moxie Marlinspike used the spotlight of the SOURCE conference here to call attention to Google's data harvesting practices, warning that the search engine giant can mine information to figure out even what Web surfers are thinking about.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 29, 2010

How Blippy users' credit cards got into Google

A series of gaffes at Blippy, Google, and a Midwest bank exposed the credit card numbers of four individuals within Google search results for more than two months. Friday was easily the worst day in the history of Blippy, a young start-up that enables people to create social networks around sharing information on goods and services they buy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 24, 2010

10 Nations Demand Online Privacy - Or Else

Google was the main target of a group of privacy commissioners from 10 nations who held a press event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to air their grievances. They castigated the company over its botched Buzz rollout and criticized its Street View operations. However, other online companies -- such as Facebook and other social networks -- should also take notice, the commissioners warned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 23, 2010

Google Privacy Failings Criticized by Ten Countries

Privacy officials from 10 countries on Tuesday penned a letter to Google criticizing its approach to privacy, pointing to its Buzz and Street View products as examples.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2010

Google shows government requests data

In the spirit of being open, search engine outfit Google has stated under what conditions it will hand over data to governments or delete information on its websites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2010

Firefox add-on disrupts Google data collection

I think this is one plugin we won't see released by Google for Chrome anytime soon. A computer security researcher has launched a project designed to provide people greater privacy when using Google, as the company expands the scope of data its collects about its users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2010

Linux Privacy - Page 29

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

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