In the digital age, clever thieves no longer steal handbags or crack cars: they are targeting the data and money of Internet users. The number of people affected has increased, as has the amount of damage. Attackers today know many tricks to get data or money. From hijacked PCs redirecting Internet traffic to hackers, to […]
Word has spread: Surfing the Internet leaves traces. How many clues are there, how expressive they are and how deep they penetrate our privacy – is surprising and rather disturbing. This article explains what you disclose during an everyday trip into the data network. What does the Internet know about me? What happens when I
To set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you must first create a user account with a commercial VPN provider and specify how you want to pay the VPN access fees. In addition to the usual payment methods such as credit card, direct debit or bank transfer, many providers offer anonymous payment methods such as
Anyone surfing the Internet is never unobserved. The data you exchange online with others is always visible to third parties. In theory, every e-mail can be read at every node on the Internet that lies between you and the recipient. In order to prevent such snooping, there are various encryption and anonymization procedures. One of
For unique identification, a device requires an address within a data network – be it in the home LAN or on the Internet. This is the only way to ensure that data packets reach the right recipient. This is done via the so-called IP address. But this also allows us to draw meaningful and unwanted
‘Big data.’ ‘Metadata.’ ‘Raw data.’ B.J. Mendelson has a passion for privacy, so he created a book “Privacy” from his collection of essays on privacy protection. This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled “Big Trouble in Little Data.” We felt it was worth sharing. (@bjmendelson) Data processed by autonomous machines employing ‘machine learning.’ By
Children and Internet? Almost all parents are concerned about the dangers such as violence, bullying, and pornography on the web. Safe alternatives suggest offers explicitly aimed at the young target audience, such as child-friendly sites for entertainment and educational sites. Nobody expects anything terrible on these colorful, seemingly harmless pages. But appearances are deceptive, as
Spyware Warning: Web Trackers Are Spying on our Children on the Internet Weiterlesen
Who buys cookies in the supermarket, pays the same price as all other customers. But the Internet has its own laws: More and more retailers rely on “dynamic pricing”. Behind this is a sophisticated algorithm: what price a customer pays for a product depends not only on the time, but also on factors such as
Why Should I Pay More? How to Avoid Dynamic Pricing Weiterlesen
We are increasingly online and continuously leaving data traces on the Internet. According to “Online Study 2017” by ARD and ZDF, more than 50 million people call information from the Internet every day in Germany alone. On average, every German is on the net for almost two and a half hours a day – 21
Naked In The Net: What Our Internet Data Reveals About Us Weiterlesen
The case was one of the biggest data scandals of 2016! Web of Trust (WOT) with 140 million users is one of the most popular browser extensions – turned out to be a nasty data spy or as the Germans called it “Datenschleuder” with translates to Sling Shot. The service collected information about the browsing
Only The Tip Of The Iceberg: Data Scandal At Web Of Trust Weiterlesen
