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Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you’re being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That’s because browser cookies were tracking you as you performed your searches; they identified you and your activity.

Over the past few years, the online advertising industry has been undergoing a sea change as regulators restricted how cookies can be used and browser providers moved away from their use in response to consumer outcries over privacy.

“They often feel surveilled; some even find it ‘creepy’ that a website can show them ads related to their behavior elsewhere,” according to a recent study by the HEC Paris Business School.

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MalwareBytes Security

January 29, 2024 admin

In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying

Senior Privacy Advocate David Ruiz speaks with Bruce Schneier about artificial intelligence, surveillance, and an era of “mass spying.”

Independent Krebs

January 25, 2024 admin

Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:38:43 +0000

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make searching for software on Google a dicey affair.

MalwareBytes Security

January 22, 2024 admin

A week in security (January 15 – January 21)

A list of topics we covered in the week of January 15 to January 21 of 2024

MalwareBytes Security

January 20, 2024 admin

Google failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims

A nonprofit study claims that Google is failing to delete location history that reveals users’ physical trips to abortion clinics.

MalwareBytes Security

January 19, 2024 admin

Google changes wording for Incognito browsing in Chrome

Google wants you to know you can still be tracked when you’re incognito.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 19, 2024 admin

The most significant number from Samsung's Galaxy S24 announcement

My goodness, there’s a lot to be said about Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy S24 family of flagship Android devices.

Aaaaand, spoiler alert: We won’t be saying most of those things here, in this column, today.

Now, don’t get me wrong: Samsung’s latest and greatest Galaxy models have tons of good stuff going for ’em. From the eye-catching hardware to the specs to end all specs, Samsung rarely holds back with its top-of-the-line Android offerings. And this year’s devices appear to be no exception.

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Kaspersky Security

January 18, 2024 admin

Why using Google OAuth in work applications is unsafe

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:19:06 +0000

A bug in the Google OAuth sign-in mechanism can be exploited by fired employees to retain access to accounts