Anonymous Email Authors — Watch Out! New Method Can Unveil Identity

Forget about the cloak of anonymity on the Internet: Researchers from Concordia University in Canada have developed a new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails.

Study co-author Benjamin Fung, a professor of Information Systems Engineering at Concordia University and an expert in data mining, said the past few years…

Cookies Killer Nevercookie Provides Added Privacy

Online anonymity solutions provider Anonymizer, Inc. has released a beta version of Anonymizer Nevercookie, a Firefox plugin designed to fight Evercookie, a javascript API that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser.

The free plugin can be downloaded from the Anonymizer website or from the company’s Facebook page. In the coming weeks, the…

Web Users Get Paid to be Big Brother, Fight Crime

Crime never sleeps, and now thanks to a new surveillance project, neither do the crime fighters.

A company in Devon in southwestern England has launched a new website that pays citizens to monitor live commercial CCTV footage online in an effort to catch would-be criminals. Internet Eyes will pay up to…

Survey: Consumers Fail at Protecting Identity, Privacy Online

While most consumers know about the risks associated with using the Internet and engaging in e-commerce, the majority still relies on inadequate measures to protect their privacy and identity, according to a new survey by Anonymizer, Inc.

An overwhelming majority of respondents believed a firewall and an anti-virus software offered adequate protection for their identity online. However, while those tools are important safety measures, they…

Cyber Experts: Espionage, APTs, Malware among Most Dangerous Cyber Threats

Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more attacks of increasing sophistication.

Here, 10 industry insiders offer their insight into what they believe are the most dangerous cyber threats, ranging from social engineering to cyber espionage.

Abraxas’ Lance Cottrell: Fierce Competition in Web-Privacy Sector

New companies aiming to help individuals and businesses protect their identities and web behavior from marketers are facing tough challenges in the marketplace.

It’s not just competition from privacy freeware providers and users’ reluctance to give personal information to smaller start-up companies – many are simply unaware about how visible their online behavior is.

Setting…

Lance Cottrell of Abraxas: ‘Substantial Civil-Liberty Impacts’ But No Security Benefits with Large-Scale Internet Surveillance

It may not sound like the most straightforward avenue into cybersecurity, but Abraxas’ chief scientist and cyber expert Lance Cottrell began his career as an astronomer. Pursuing graduate studies in astrophysics in San Diego in the early 1990s, Cottrell had direct access to the Internet, the web, and high-speed backbones at a time where no one outside the scientific…