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4 Surprising Things You Can't Trust Online

By now most people are aware of the obvious security pitfalls of the web: phishing attacks, identity theft and so on. Everything else, though - or so we would like to think - is okay. Not so, unfortunately. Consider the following surprisingly unsafe activities. Third Party Certificate Authorities Third-party encryption made the web safe to bank and conduct financial transactions. Now, though, a new problem is emerging: there are too many third-party "certificate authoritie  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 17th 2010

Click Fraud Gets More Elaborate with 'Real' Purchases

A Harvard Business School professor has identified a new breed of click fraud that not only simulates clicks on a Google ad - but also seemingly generates a 'real' customer purchase on the advertiser's website. Professor Ben Edelman, who has researched such related issues as invisible online ads - sleight-of-hand tactics used by some websites to sell more advertising than they have space for - calls this new form   [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 21st 2010

New Statistics Support Controversial Ad Strategy

New statistics that show half of all Americans would watch ads for money support the premise behind a controversial ad technology patent filed by Apple that would compel recipients of cheap mobile devices to watch videos at any time. More than half of Americans (52%) say they’d be willing to watch the ads if paid to watch them, such as through a discount on their cable bill, according to a multi-country survey by Synovate. The US was the second-highest market globally that said this, after   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 15th 2009

AT&T Staunchly Defends Ad Targeting

As mobile advertising picks up steam, AT&T sets a precedent by issuing a strong defense of tracking users' web-browsing behavior across its network, arguing it can "dramatically improve their experience," reports the New York Times. AT&T also emphasized the importance of doing so "the right way," meaning using of the "opt-in" method (requiring customers to affirmati  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 18th 2008

Phorm Still Has a Lot of Public Relations to Do

Despite Phorm's self-styled aggressive stance on user privacy, UK customers remain adamantly distrustful of the service, reports ISPreview. A survey of 1090 ISPreview readers found 57 percent would leave their ISP if it partnered with Phorm to serve targeted advertising. Phorm works with ISPs to track online activity, then cr  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 12th 2008

Spammers Crack CAPTCHA; ReCAPTCHA to the Rescue?

SecurityLabs has written an analysis on how spammers increasingly evade Captcha to impersonate humans with bots. CAPTCHA, or "the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart," is a common line of defense against comment spam and false registrations on websites. Last year CAPTCHA re  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008

BBC Trust: Aghast at Uprising over XP-Only iPlayer

Yesterday the BBC Trust met with the UK's Open Source Consortium to discuss issues raised by the iPlayer, a BBC content streaming program that is only compatible with Windows XP. The BBC Trust, which oversees the BBC, expressed surprise by the passion behind platform neutrality demands made by a seething public, and repeated its assurance that "the BBC provides high quality output and go  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 25th 2007

Canadian Teachers Put Foot Down on Cyber Bullying

Teachers across Canada are increasingly concerned about online bullying, reports The Globe and Mail, and this week, they will try developing national policy for protecting students and educators from the tactic. A Toronto-based gathering of the Canadian Teachers' Federation will try to tackle the elusive problem of bullying over the Internet. The Federation   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 10th 2007

Online Video Recording Sparks Neo-Piracy Concerns

Media companies are increasingly worried that video recording software will yield a new generation of pirates, robbing the entitled of lucrative ad revenue, reports The Globe and Mail. As media companies ramp up the television, film and video offerings available online, concerns about new media piracy are understandably growing. And sometimes, even pr  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 25th 2007

Behavior Unlocks Identity, Microsoft Holds the Key

A China-based Microsoft site is testing a new software that draws a sharp profile of Internet users, including age, sex and geographic origin, writes Reporters Without Borders (via The New Scientist). The software draws conclusions, not by form entry, but by user behavior. The goal of the new software is to better ta  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 6th 2007

Cutts: Google Personalized Search to Get Bigger - to Black Hat SEOs' Chagrin

While predictions so far don't have Google's focus on personalized search having much impact on users, Google's Matt Cutts says the feature will grow as Google gets more comfortable with it, writes Search Engine Land. In an interview with the site, Cutts lays out the benefits that users will get from being served personalized results and what that means for the SEO community. Because so much of the search results by a   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 5th 2007

Microsoft Ordered to Pay $1.5B in MP3 Patent Dispute

A San Diego federal jury has ruled against Microsoft in a patent dispute case, ordering the software giant to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent. The case centered on the MP3 audio technology used in Windows operating systems, CNET reports. The jury awarded damages to Alcatel-Lucent based on each Windows PC sold since May 2003. Alcatel-Lu  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 23rd 2007

Content Filters Give Media Companies Some Control

Media companies worried over the unauthorized digital sharing of their content are embracing content-recognition software, which has progressed to a point that it can identify vide clips even if their quality is low, reports the New York Times. One application, produced by Audible Magic, can filter out content based on a database of existing foota  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 20th 2007

Stealth Browser Hides IP Addresses

A group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts has released a Firefox-based fully portable browser designed to allow anonymous web surfing. Called Torpark, the browser created by the Hacktivismo organization establishes an encrypted connection to the TOR (The Onion Router) network, which supplies a succession of different IP addresses,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006

NY Times Censors Itself

New York Times readers in Britain may have been disappointed if they attempted to read the lead story on the NYTimes.com website due to self-censorship exploiting the site's regional ad targeting technology. The Times reports on the issue and includes its justification from legal counsel, referring to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 30th 2006

Eolas Update: Microsoft Alters IE 6 to Comply with Court Ruling

Microsoft has issued a "Non Security Update" for Internet Explorer 6 to comply with a court order to remove automatic activation for ActiveX controls from IE, which was found to infringe on a technology patent by Eolas, PC Pro reports. The upcoming IE 7 and Windows Vista will have the update built in. The moves are the result of Microsoft's having run out of options after its appeals to both th  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 3rd 2006

FTC Says CAN-SPAM Works Well

In its report to Congress on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the law is indispensable in the war on spam but subsequent anti-spam measures must be technological, writes ClickZ. FTC officials summarized the report's findings during a press conference, during which they also discussed enforcement initiatives undertaken together with Canada and those with some southern states. However, only 2  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 21st 2005

Supreme Court to Consider eBay Patent Appeal

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal by eBay in a closely watched patent case and said it would revisit the rules for granting injunctions against patent-infringing companies, writes the New York Times. The disputed patents enable the processing of transactions for eBay's fixed-price purchasing feature. The issue, according to eBay, is whether the federal circuit court's rule correctly interprets federal pat  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 29th 2005

Seeking Patent Overhaul, Bill Asks: Who's on First?

CNET reports that a bill introduced Wednesday in the House of Representatives seeks to substantially overhaul the U.S. patent system and, according to its sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith, improve the overall quality of patents and reduce legal shenanigans that have annoyed high-tech companies   [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 9th 2005

Germans Ally with French to Counter Google Print Hegemony

To counter Google Print, the search giant's project to digitize and offer free, searchable versions of major university library collections in the United States, a task force of the German book trade association Boersenverein is organizing its own digital indexing project, Volltextsuche Online, reports the International Herald Tribune  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 6th 2005