Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site's 10th anniversary by releasing a web browser that allows users to access TPB or other sites censored in their country.
"PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client ...
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Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Go into the password section in Google Chrome's settings panel and you can see that the popular web browser displays saved passwords in plain text. Many consider this a flaw – but not Google.
Software developer Elliott Kember may not be the first one to realize this, but he learned about ...
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network.
The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites ...
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Sunday, August 4th, 2013
If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would ...
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Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
Do you carry your cell phone with you wherever you go? Of course you do. Indeed, a study even showed that 75% of people actually use their phone while in the bathroom! So is it any surprise that the best way to get information on suspected criminals would be to snoop ...
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