Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Hyperlink Auditing disabled in the Brave browser version 73.0.62.51
Well crafted piece by Lawrence Abrams, detailing the URL 'Ping' Tracking (aka Hyper-Text Protocol Auditing), and the consequences to users within many browser deployments. If you find yourself examining anything privacy related today, Mr. Abrams' post will certainly jump-start the ganglia, thereto.
Alert The Media: Lawrence Abrams, writing at Bleeping Computer, reports on new security/privacy decisions at Mozilla Foundation targeting user securiity & privacy of the organization's Firefox browser: of which, is apparently slated to block all tracking bits... I'll believe it when I see it.
"According to Mozilla's announcement, enabling the Slow-Loading Trackers blocker will improve page performance while browsing the web as tracking scripts that take longer than 5 seconds will be blocked. If you wish to block cross-site tracking cookies, you would also want to make sure that the Third-Party Cookies and All Detected Trackers settings are enabled as well." - via Lawrence Abrams, writing at Bleeping Computer
via Martin Brinkmann writing at his eponymous blog: gHacks Technology News, tells the tale of Password Manager Exploitation by nefarious-minded Web Trackers. Certainly Wednesday's MustRead, yes?
'Research from Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy suggest that newly discovered web trackers exploit password managers to track users.' - via Martin Brinkmann at gHacks.net