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RSS cookiesThe Information Card Ecosystem: The Fundamental Leap From Cookies & Passwords to Cards & Selectors
White Paper The emergence of a long-awaited digital identity layer for the Internet means the evolution from an identity model based on one-dimensional cookies and passwords to a new model based on two-dimensional Information Cards. [13 Nov 2009]
Challenges in Supporting End-User Privacy and Security Management With Social Navigation
White Paper The Acumen system employs social navigation to address a common privacy activity, managing Internet cookies, and the Bonfire system uses social navigation to help users manage their personal firewall. [11 Nov 2009]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News The browser kernel interacts with the operating system and handles only trusted code, storing things like bookmarks and cookies on the computer. The techniques Google uses to protect Chrome users from browser-based... [23 Jul 2009]
Photos: What's new in Firefox 3.5?
Photo Firefox 3 offered a Clear Private Data option for wiping cookies, history, and other browsing tracks in one hit. The big feature in Firefox 3.5 is deep support for CSS media tags, HTML5 and native support for embedded... [06 Jul 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News In addition, the rules concerning privacy and data protection are strengthened, e.g.on the use of 'cookies' and similar devices. The European Parliament has voted through a massive tranche of reforms for the European... [07 May 2009]
What Is a Cookie?
White Paper Cookies are employed when one uses the browser to visit web sites on the Internet. The two main browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, both allow the use of cookies. Cookie files allow a web... [01 May 2009]
Cookie Paraphernalia Store Solves Inventory, Purchasing, and Transaction Problems
White Paper Keeping mental inventory of 2,000 small items and their rates of sale in the store and from the Web site was making Caryn Truitt, owner of Cookies, frazzled. Cookies is in Ballard, Washington, but... [01 May 2009]
Wolfram Alpha: The Google rival that aims to dig deeper
News There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers' salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram publicly... [29 Apr 2009]
Google watches your interests to target adverts
News However, as clearing the browser's cookies would effectively remove the opt-out cookie itself, Google has also released a plug-in for browsers that provides a permanent opt-out from the service. Google is to start... [12 Mar 2009]
ASP .NET: Collect Customer Order Information on an Internet Site Using XML and Web Forms
White Paper To build the application, several concepts are explained, including data collection, order persistence using cookies, grouping input forms, and formatting the data for display. XML has quickly become the new data... [30 Jan 2009]
ScanSafe Case Study: V.Ships
White Paper V.Ships required a solution could offer a scalable service in line with its own growth to monitor, intercept and alert it to potential threats from malware such as viruses, Trojans, spyware, tracking cookies, keystroke... [01 Dec 2008]
Round three for BT's Phorm trials
News The spokesperson said BT had been exploring network-based ways to track anonymised users without having to use cookies but said this had not been the reason for the delay. Phorm's technology, which BT will use under the... [29 Sep 2008]
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
White Paper Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such attacks. [10 Sep 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News The refreshed homepage now has a "Last Played" section which uses anonymous cookies to show the last programme viewed or listened to by the user with the ability to resume a paused piece of content from a previous session. [25 Jun 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News The Pure Hacking consultant demonstrated how a point-and-click attack can be used to gain access to a victim's Gmail account over a hotspot, using a tool to "sniff out" unencrypted information stored in cookies, and then... [12 Jun 2008]
