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BBC launches iPlayer 2.0 beta
News The refreshed homepage now has a 'Last played' section which uses anonymous cookies to show the last programme viewed or listened to by the user, with the ability to resume a paused piece of content from a previous session.
[June 26, 2008, 8:49]
Internet marketeer faces spam charges
Talkback The privacy of the user is violated by installing various spy wares and cookies that keep a record of the surfing habits of the users. NUISANCE AT ITS BEST The present system of spam mails and unsolicited mails is a gold mine for the advertisers...
[June 23, 2005, 16:46]
IBM chases a PC's soul
News After the person disconnects the system, SoulPad saves all work to the device, including browser cookies or other digital signatures that a PC keeps in its short-term memory. Researchers at IBM are testing software that would let you tote your home...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
Surveillance 2: A matter of disguise
News For extra protection, monitor your cookie collection and weed out any whose purpose you don't clearly understand (Netscape Navigator users can search for a file called Cookies.txt; Microsoft Internet Explorer users should look in the Temporary...
[February 25, 2000, 9:39]
Netscape 7 Preview Release 1 review
Reviews For example, the Netscape preview release we tested can't reject cookies from inside an email message, whereas Mozilla has just added this feature to version 1.0 RC 2. Netscape 7 looks a lot like version 6, but underneath the surface, it's mostly...
[May 22, 2002, 18:22]
Rise of the robots - can APM save us?
Blog I have taken to selecting “Spanish” before I pay for my milk and cookies to see if it makes the process more fun. After my e-retailing blog last week, I have been keeping my eyes, ears and mind open to the subject of automation.
[January 11, 2009, 23:56]
Dot-coms see gold in consumer data
News Web companies are hoping analytics services--the process of making sense of data compiled from cookies and other data-gathering techniques--will prove the Internet is worthy of dwindling ad dollars. Web analytics is becoming a hot niche in a cold...
[October 25, 2001, 9:46]
IE hit by more security flaws
News The third vulnerability could be used to overwrite the cookies of a trusted site to hijack a Web session, if the site handles authentication in an insecure manner, according to that advisory. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has become a turkey shoot...
[November 18, 2004, 8:00]
PocketTools
Downloads Monitor and manipulate the Temporary Internet Files, History, Cookies, and Address History. PocketTools is a complete and essential monitoring tool for Microsoft Windows CE-based Pocket PC devices. The new Version 4.0 PocketTools offers a new look...
[December 25, 2003, 11:32]
Browzar: a first look review
Reviews When you use Browzar instead of IE, nothing that happens is recorded -- not your Web history, not data you type into forms or search engines and not Web site cookies (they're deleted when you close the application, along with your session's page...
[September 1, 2006, 14:25]
Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is it worth bothering with?
Talkback By the way the tracking cookies that lavasoft finds are regenerated within a day and they are watching you again! I am a techie, and manage about 500 customers. The reviewer did the scan on a relatively clean machine used by an advanced user.
[January 27, 2005, 14:37]
Carry On Crashing: Windows 7 starts messing about
Blog Comment The registry is always a complete mess when doing an upgrade so that's an important task to carry out for me and the last thing I would want to be upgrading is detritus from the registry and accumulated junk files/cookies.
[October 28, 2009, 22:16]
Phantoms of the Opera fixed
News The first, which stems from a problem with Opera's Javascript console, would allow a site to read cookies -- containing information of Web sites visited, and in some cases usernames and passwords -- from a user's PC.
[February 5, 2003, 14:16]
Safari RSS review
Reviews For those who share a computer or browse at work, Safari's Private Browsing feature hides your cookies, browsing history and caches as though you were not surfing at all. Safari RSS installs with Mac OS X Tiger.
[May 18, 2005, 8:50]
MPs start review of Computer Misuse Act
Talkback The question of spyware benign or not and cookies should also be addressed. If an organisation were to employ persons to hack into their own systems for the purpose of identifying security holes, or a company were contracted to carry out the same...
[May 4, 2004, 13:53]
Google's desktop liberation tool
Talkback There are a lot of others that install cookies,and collect data without ever asking your permission. Indeed,suppliers of such services should guarantee that they will not take personal information from your computer.
[January 30, 2005, 19:07]
Mozilla releases security fixes
News His note said that a flaw in Firefox could allow hackers to set or change cookies, permissions for website settings and passwords, for their own purposes. Mozilla has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client for Windows...
[February 26, 2007, 8:03]
Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News But it's already possible to follow users via "cookies" and IP addresses, so this isn't the biggest concern. Intel has revealed that each Pentium III chip will carry a unique serial number that can be read by the computer's software.
[May 17, 1999, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News But it's already possible to follow users via "cookies" and IP addresses, so this isn't the biggest concern. Intel has revealed that each Pentium III chip will carry a unique serial number that can be read by the computer's software.
[May 17, 2000, 7:01]
Acrobat flaw opens door to attack
News This vulnerability makes it possible for cross-site-scripting (XSS) attacks to occur, to steal cookies, session information, or possibly create a XSS worm," he said. A security weakness in the ubiquitous Acrobat Reader software could be a boon for...
[January 4, 2007, 7:29]
