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Top Ten Firefox Extensions for Online Privacy Enhancement

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Most people lock their doors and windows, use a paper shredder to protect themselves from identity theft, and install antivirus software on their computers. Yet they routinely surf the Internet without giving a second thought to whether their browser is secure and their personal information safe. Unfortunately, it's easy for someone with nefarious intentions to use a Web site to glean data from -- or introduce spyware to -- your computer. Even worse, sometimes all you have to do is randomly click on a site to have your data probed in a most unwelcome way. Any tools which helps my security and privacy while surfing the Internet is worth looking at. There are many Firefox extensions which can improve your privacy and security on the Net. This articles talks about 10 such tools.

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NebuAd Exposure: ISP Ad Injection Threats to Your Privacy

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You pay for your broadband modem, you pay the ISP to keep delivering your service, and what do you get in return? They spy, monitor, and insert ads into your web pages for good measure. Apparently a certain vendor (lets call them NebuAd) has been selling devices to ISPs to do precisely that. Your privacy is exchanged for traffic habits, you preferences, and custom tailored ads for you. Whatever happened to just 'um, no?'

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Concerns About Privacy Related to Membership Lists on Dating Platforms

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"Suppose your girlfriend called up Match.com and said, "I think my boyfriend might be cheating on me. His e-mail address is joeblow - at - aol - dot - com. Can you tell me if he's a member?" And Match.com phone support told her, "Why, yes, he is a member. You'd better have a talk with him." After you had gotten over the guilt of getting caught -- I mean, the guilt of cheating -- would you not feel like Match.com had violated your privacy by telling a third party that you were a member?"

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Data Collection Practices of Major Internet Service Providers

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Wired News, with help from some readers, attempted to get real answers from the largest United States-based ISPs about what information they gather on their customers' use of the internet, and how long they retain records like IP addresses, e-mail and real-time browsing activity. Most importantly, we asked what they require from law-enforcement agencies before coughing up the data, and whether they sell your data to marketers.

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Enhance Protection With RFID Guardian Firewall For Short-Range Tags

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Don't carry RFID? You might be surprised; the short-range ID technology is currently found in everything from US passports to swipeless credit cards to public transit passes to World Cup tickets to car keys to the building access pass for your office building. A few of the digerati even elect to have RFID implants from VeriChip slipped beneath their skin in order to use them as cashless payment systems.

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Investigating ISP Data Retention Policies And user Privacy Issues

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Last Friday, 27B asked 10 of the nation's largest ISPs to clarify their data retention and sharing policies, in the wake of a report that ISPs were selling 'anonimized' user internet history logs to data firms and an ongoing drive by the Justice Department and some in Congress to require ISPs to hold that data for long periods of time. 'Anonymized' clickstreams can easily be used to rebuild a person's online life, especially given that search engine urls usually include the contents of a search.

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Exploring Lynette's Exceptional Leadership in IT and Network Management

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Meet Lynette, a seemingly super-charged IT supervisor. Her assigned turf is network administration, but she is often the first to pitch in on special projects, can habitually be found providing requested extra staff guidance and generally sets a highly motivated personal example within her unit. Thus, Lynette routinely displays certain highly desirable leadership characteristics which add more value to, and have greater impact on, unit performance and outcomes. Lynette is a value-added leader similar to several you can likely identity within your own organization.

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Gartner Reports Major Surge In Identity Theft And Fraud Statistics

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The rate of identity theft-related fraud has risen sharply since 2003, a report from research firm Gartner suggests. Gartner's study, released Tuesday, shows that from mid-2005 until mid-2006, about 15 million Americans were victims of fraud that stemmed from identity theft, an increase of more than 50 percent from the estimated 9.9 million in 2003.

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How Biometric Passports Can Be Duplicated Without Physical Extraction

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In an investigation for the Daily Mail, security consultant Adam Laurie has demonstrated how a new UK biometric passport can be cloned without even being removed from its delivery envelope. The Mail exploit draws on previous work by Laurie and others, and puts together vulnerabilities in the chip technology, and in the chip security and logistics systems used by the Identity & Passport Service.

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Analyzing Data Leakage Using Ferret Tool Across 25 Network Protocols

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Security researchers announced on Thursday the release of a network sniffing tool that conveniently categorizes the data leaked by laptops and other devices during routine operation. The tool, dubbed Ferret, analyzes information that computers and other network devices regularly send out as a matter of course--a problem that Robert Graham, CEO of startup Errata Security, called data seepage.

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Google and Live Digital Disclose User IDs in Piracy Lawsuit Against Fox

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Google's YouTube and a company called Live Digital will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons" onto their video platforms. In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson said that Google and Live Digital complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally uploaded entire episodes of "24" prior to its broadcast and DVD release.

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Exploring Email Harvesters' Configurations And Spam Impact Analysis

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In previous posts on web application email harvesting, and the distributed email harvesting honeypot, I commented on a relatively less popular threat - the foundation for sending spam and phishing emails, namely collecting publicly available email addresses. The other day I came across an email harvester and decided to comment on its configuration file.

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PayPal Unveils $5 OTP Device To Enhance Identity Security Against Phishing

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PayPal announced last week that it will soon support a key fob to provide its customers with two-factor authentication. Costing $5 for personal accounts--and free for business accounts--people can get a One-Time Password (OTP) device that displays a new six-digit code every 30 seconds. The intent is to provide customers with another line of defense against identity theft and the continuous onslaught of PayPal-based phishing attacks.

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