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Google Kills 3rd-Party Cookies — but Monopolizes AdTech

Firefox looking good right now: “Privacy Sandbox” criticized as a proprietary, hypocritical, anti-competitive, self-serving contradiction ...
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Google Chrome 3rd Party Cookies Crumbling — Finally!

Google Chrome 3rd Party Cookies Crumbling — Finally!

Om Nom Nom Nom Nom: Privacy Sandbox inching towards reality. But concerns remain ...
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FTC Cracks Down on Unauthorized Disclosure of Health Information for Advertising: A Roundup of Recent Enforcement Actions

Lately, the Federal Trade commission (FTC) has taken an increased interest in protecting the consumers’ digital health information by cracking down on companies deploying unfair and deceptive practices to share user health ...

What Trust and Compliance Looks Like in a Cookieless Digital World

Originally envisaged as a convenient way to store web data, cookies emerged as a powerful marketing tool in the 2000s. For many years, digital marketers relied on cookies for data collection. However, ...

4 Strategies to Mitigate Pass-the-Cookie Attacks

Another year, another new set of cybersecurity threats to overcome, outwit and mitigate against. At the beginning of 2021, the cybersecurity world was informed by CISA (the USA Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...
Same Site Cookies by Default in Chrome 76 and Above

SameSite Cookies by Default in Chrome 76 and Above

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Beginning its journey almost ten years ago, Google Chrome has become one of the most popular web browsers on the internet and continues to prioritize speed and security in its service to ...
Cross-Domain Cookie Manipulation 1

Cross Site Cookie Manipulation

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For years, we’ve been told to keep the values of sensitive session cookies unpredictable and complex in order to prevent attacks such as session enumeration. And, it made sense. If the session ...
Decoding BigIP Cookie

Decoding BigIP Cookie

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BigIP cookie contains internal network IP and port information in encoded format. When decoded, these cookies can help create an internal network map with potential web server IPs and their ports. F5 ...

On GIFARs

The Black Hat Briefings 2008 are fast approaching. As I mentioned in my previous post on stealing password hashes I am speaking with Nate McFeters and Rob Carter; you can find the ...