Almost everyone these days has heard about “anonymous Web surfing” that allows visit websites while preventing anyone from collecting one’s personal information and/or Web history. Well, at least in theory, since proxy services vary on quality. Such services hide your IP address and disable cookies...
Sometimes it seems that everyone is concerned about his or her privacy online. Various leaks and security scandals in media only add to this global craze. Trying to secure their privacy, users turn to various free proxy services that are abundant today, as well as VPN...
The number of online retail fraud attempts increased significantly in 2015. According to ACI Worldwide, the growth was 30%. The security firm analyzed hundreds of millions of transactions with large retailers. In 2015, one out of 86 transactions were fraudulent or fraud attempts...
A new spying device called InterApp allows to stealthily collect a lot of personal information of mobile device users in the proximity. Just plug it in a wall somewhere in an airport, hotel, or mall, and it will collect massive amounts of data from devices using just a Wi-Fi connection...
A single hacker managed to steal quite a lot of online credentials – 1.2 billion (!). A hacker known as Mr. Grey (or “Mistergray”) stole exactly this number of login-password pairs from various online accounts. According to the FBI, it’s the biggest number of credentials...
Disable Java in Windows In Java version 7 update 10, the system-level disabling of the virtual machine was introduced. In Windows, this is done via the Start -> Control Panel. Find Java in the programs list and open Java Control Panel. Now just uncheck the box “Enable Java content in the browser”: ...
Disable JavaScript in Google Chrome To disable JavaScript in Chrome, open settings by clicking on the three-striped button in the top-right corner of the browser. Scroll the page to the very bottom and click “Show advanced settings”. Here you will find the “Privacy” section. Click on “Content settings”...
Spamhaus.org is one of the most popular Internet security web tools. It helps to remove an IP from black lists and block lists. To check whether your IP is blocklisted, open Whoer.net in your browser. You’ll see your IP address and a lot of different information. Look at the option “Blacklist”...
The TOR browser and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) were created with the same goal in mind – anonymous and secure Internet work. But this does not mean that they perform it equally well. Let us consider some differences between the two. The first problem has to do with WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication)...
You PC anonymity rating allows to quickly show all the vulnerabilities and flaws in your defenses. We divide these flaws into three approximate groups: serious, moderate, and minor. The serious flaws group consists of unmistakable efforts on your part to hide or change your actual IP address or its leak...
Fingerprints are unique “footprints” of your system settings which allow special mechanisms on websites to track you. Browser fingerprints are an alternative to cookies with a number of advantages. Cookies and fingerprints: main differences. Cookies are an important part of many operations in the Internet...
Fingerprints: unique browser traces. Part 2. Browser fingerprints stability. There are many ways of changing the browser’s fingerprints and making it less recognizable: updating the browser (by constantlt downloading updates), using typical plugins, changing screen resolution to more typical, deleting...
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