Tag: Cookies

US Antitrust Regulators Could Target Google’s Chrome Browser For Breakup

Slashdot reader alternative_right shares a report from Politico:
Justice Department and state prosecutors investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering whether to force the company to sell its dominant Chrome browser and parts of its lucrative advertising business, three people with knowledge of the discussions said… The conversations — amid preparations for an antitrust legal battle that the Department of Justice…

Hacker Leaks Passwords For 900+ Enterprise VPN Servers

A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. ZDNet reports: According to a review, the list includes: IP addresses of Pulse Secure VPN servers, Pulse Secure VPN server firmware version, SSH keys for each server, a list of all local users and their password…

Google Starts Testings Its Replacement for Third-Party Cookies for Chrome

“Google has taken one step closer to banishing third-party cookies from Chrome,” reports Engadget. The internet giant has started testing its trust tokens with developers, with promises that more would move to live tests “soon.” As before, the company hoped to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome once it could meet the needs of both users and advertisers. Trust tokens are…

Google Starts Testing Its Replacement for Third-Party Cookies for Chrome

“Google has taken one step closer to banishing third-party cookies from Chrome,” reports Engadget. The internet giant has started testing its trust tokens with developers, with promises that more would move to live tests “soon.” As before, the company hoped to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome once it could meet the needs of both users and advertisers. Trust tokens are…

NASA scientist over the moon with homegrown radish research

While others have perfected sourdough starter or whipped up chocolate chip cookies during the pandemic, NASA scientist Max Coleman has been toiling in his kitchen over containers of baby radishes—all in the name of science. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-nasa-scientist-moon-homegrown-radish.html…

Chrome 84 Arrives With SameSite Cookie Changes, Web OTP API and Web Animations API

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 84 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 84 resumes SameSite cookie changes, includes the Web OTP API and Web Animations API, and removes older Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions. First deprecated with Chrome 81 in April, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have now been completely removed with…

Oracle’s BlueKai Tracks You Across the Web. That Data Spilled Online

From a report: Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about? There’s no big conspiracy. Ad tech can be creepily accurate. Tech giant Oracle is one of a few companies in Silicon Valley that has near-perfected the art of tracking people across the internet. The company has spent a decade and billions of…

Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers’ Websites

Michael Lynch, blogger and former software engineer at Microsoft and Google, discovered that the payment processing platform Stripe and its official JavaScript library records all browsing activity on its customers’ websites and reports it back to the company. Lynch says this data includes the following: 1. Every URL the user visits on my site, including pages that never display Stripe payment…

Apple Blocks Third-Party Cookies in Safari

Starting this week, with the release of Safari 13.1 and through updates to the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) privacy feature, Apple now blocks all third-party cookies in Safari by default. From a report: The company’s move means that online advertisers and analytics firms cannot use browser cookie files anymore to track users as they visit different sites across the internet. But…