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Note: Read about past updates to this technology in other blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data.
Device fingerprinting.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is the standard used to secure Internet communications. Few understand how it really works.
Security researchers at UC San Diego and Stanford have discovered four new ways to expose Internet users' browsing histories. These techniques could be used by hackers to learn which websites users have visited as they surf the web.
The privacy tool used by millions of people doesn’t actually protect your privacy.
Web companies and browser makers are rolling out encryption that can obscure the identity of many–though not yet all–of the websites you visit.
Fingerprint collecting platform
Private browsing is a privacy-enhancing tool, where the web browser does not record users’ private browsing activities on the local device.
Many web users overestimate exactly how private a “private browsing mode” really is according to new research. That’s partly because of confusion in the way browser developers name and explain the modes, which also include “incognito.” Researchers at the University of Chicago and Leibniz University in Hannover ran a study with 460 participants. Each was […]
Package of browser utilities for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome.
Safari is pushing back against share buttons
Phishers and other online crooks are taking advantage of Unicode domain names in their pursuit of your passwords and other sensitive information. Here's a simple way to protect yourself.
A new MIT system uses JavaScript decryption algorithms embedded in web pages and code obfuscation to patch security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.
The WhiteHat Aviator™ Web Browser
In this comprehensive primer, you will learn what happens in the browser between when you type google.com in the address bar until you see the Google page on the browser screen.