Catching up with WoofLocker, the most elaborate traffic redirection scheme to tech support scams

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: tech support scams

Tags: fingerprinting

Tags: steganography

This tech support scam is one of the most long running and covert ones we have ever seen.

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Malvertisers up their game against researchers

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: malvertising

Tags: google

Tags: ads

Tags: malware

Tags: fingerprinting

Malicious ads via search engine results page are getting harder to identify thanks to advanced fingerprinting techniques

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Google’s “browse privately” is nothing more than a word play, lawyers say

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Google

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Incognito

Tags: private mode

Tags: fingerprinting

Tags: cookies

Tags: tracking

Private browsing is not what users expect it to be

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Google to kill third-party Chrome cookies in two years

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:20:59 +0000

Google doesn’t want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now. It has promised to make them obsolete later, though. Wait – what?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Wd6Jr8cQUKg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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