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No Easy Way To Exterminate 'Web Bugs'
News Consumers worried about privacy won't get a good solution to Internet "Web bugs" any time soon, privacy and security experts said Thursday. Web bugs -- special HTML coding that requests information over the Internet and returns information about...
[September 1, 2000, 8:37]
Privacy Group Shines Light On Web Bugs
News The release comes as an increasing number of Web sites and marketers adopt Web bugs. Our goal with the software is to reveal how Web bugs are tracking all of us on the Internet and to get companies to 'fess up' about why they are using them...
[June 8, 2001, 11:52]
Web Bug Swarm Grows 500 Percent
News Research released on Monday shows that the use of surveillance technology popularly known as Web bugs is on the rise, putting online companies in a precarious position with the consumers they're snooping on.
[August 15, 2001, 10:09]
HostsBlocker
Downloads HostsBlocker is a free simple program to block ads, pop-ups, banners, parasites, hijackers, and Web bugs by simply using Microsoft Windows HOSTS file without adding any system overhead! HostsBlocker includes 13790 blocked ads, pop-ups, banners...
[February 4, 2007, 13:31]
SpyStopper Pro
Downloads In real time, SpyStopper Pro blocks spyware, Web bugs, worms, cookies, ads, scripts, phishing sites, and other intrusive devices to protect you from being profiled and tracked. Hackers and advertisers may use Web bugs, spyware, cookies, worms, ads...
[February 15, 2007, 10:01]
JH-Security Firewall Toolbar
Downloads Protect your pc from Internet bugs and filter your pc from those nasty bugs. Surf the Web safer and feel more secure. The program gives you latest streaming virus news and details including vulnerabilities and much more out on the Web.
[October 29, 2006, 3:16]
AOL Is Keeping An Eye On You
News A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web bugs, to compile anonymous data about its members and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
[October 8, 2001, 10:46]
MySQL Gets Gold Star On Bug Test
News A source-code analysis of MySQL, a popular open source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company Coverity said Friday.
[February 7, 2005, 8:50]
US Government Web Tracking Under Scrutiny
News A 2003 government directive says that, in general, "agencies are prohibited from using" Web bugs or cookies to track Web visitors. From the Air Force to the Treasury Department, government agencies are using either "Web bugs" or permanent cookies...
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
Five Years Ago: Microsoft Swats IE Bugs
News Microsoft has posted three fixes to swat bugs in its Internet Explorer 3.0 Web browser. PCDN Comment: Any software developed so quickly is likely to have bugs, so it's to Microsoft's credit that it has issued fixes swiftly.
[September 22, 2001, 8:00]
Mozilla Squishes Latest Firefox Bugs
News Firefox 1.0.5, released on Tuesday, patches about 10 bugs in the open source Web browser, some of them "high risk", said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at Mozilla. Firefox 1.0.5 is the first update to the popular alternative browser since...
[July 13, 2005, 9:30]
MS Admits 'incompatibilities' With IE 5
News The bugs appeared when software developers used Visual InterDev, Visual Basic, and Visual J++, along with the IE 5 Web browser to create graphical user interfaces for their applications. Meanwhile, the company is alerting software developers about...
[March 19, 1999, 12:35]
Website Excavator
Downloads Version 6.1.6 has modify some bugs and modify some bugs. Search Web pages, enumerate and download resources. Follow the initial Web pages to make a spread-search. Search efficiency will be improved greatly through the filtering of webpage address...
[November 4, 2008, 20:46]
EEye: More Microsoft Bugs On The Way
News The company is listing the report dates and seriousness of the bugs on its Web site, but will reveal no further information until Microsoft has released fixes. EEye, the company that originally discovered a critical Windows bug patched by Microsoft...
[February 11, 2004, 12:40]
Windows XP, Office And SQL Server Open To New Attacks
News Microsoft late on Wednesday warned of three new bugs in its software, including a flaw in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 that could allow an unauthorised user to execute particular administrative functions called Web tasks.
[October 17, 2002, 13:47]
Firefox 1.5 Update Released
News Microsoft released a beta of IE 7 on Tuesday and by Wednesday people had already found a number of bugs, including a potential security vulnerability in the Web browser. Firefox 1.5.0.1 offers improved stability, improved support for the Mac OS X...
[February 2, 2006, 15:30]
Survey Says E-commerce Servers Still Vulnerable
News Last month, a series of bugs in Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Commerce Server and Apache led Prettejohn to remark that the Web was more open to attack than ever before. Virus activity may have declined so far this year, but a new...
[August 20, 2002, 15:24]
Researcher Kicks Off 'Month Of PHP Bugs'
News The Month of PHP Bugs follows similar projects that highlighted bugs in software for Macs, kernel-level software and web browsers. The initiative, dubbed "Month of PHP Bugs", started on Thursday. The Month of PHP Bugs is backed by the Hardened-PHP...
[March 5, 2007, 8:31]
Microsoft Coders Get Bug-checking Tool
News Microsoft developers now have a new tool to help them catch security bugs in their own code. With AppScan DE 1.5, Sanctum is moving its product up the development chain to catch bugs early, said Ben Straley, the company's product marketing manager.
[February 10, 2003, 9:20]
New Communicator Bug Found
News The bugs allow the data to be plucked before it can be encrypted. One of the previous bugs and the new one, however, are more invasive. As a result of the newest security hole in Communicator, the Bell Labs scientist that discovered one of the bugs...
[July 28, 1997, 9:00]
