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  • EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints

    Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

    Written by Robert McMillan19 May 10 04:15
  • Google Apps admins can now reset sign-in cookies remotely

    Google Apps administrators can now remotely deactivate browser cookies that contain their end-users' sign-in credentials, a move designed to improve security in Google's hosted applications suite.

    Written by Juan Carlos Perez04 May 10 04:28
  • Study: Adobe Flash cookies pose vexing privacy questions

    Adobe's Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they've restricted the data collection, according to a new study.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk12 Aug. 09 05:10
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