Firefox will block the universal user ID, according to Mozilla. This will prevent the DigiTrust consortium from tracking users in Firefox. The decision comes when IAB tries to create a standard online universal user ID. According to IAB, this should reduce the online ad…
A new digital skimming attack borrows phishing techniques and steals card data from fake payments page. Attackers used the secure payment pages, from third-party payment service providers, and inserted digital skimming code. They used fake Google Analytics library (ga.js)…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is talking about the “post-cookie” web world and proposes a digital token technology instead of cookies. IAB is the trade group that represents the online ad industry and media companies and proposes the creation of a digital…
YouTube will have to pay $170 million because it broke federal law by collecting personal information about children. Federal Trade Commission announced that YouTube had been accused of tracking viewers of children’s channels using cookies without parental consent and…
Malware is a software that is created for malicious purposes and although it is usually associated to devices, it can be also used to attack and infect the websites that you usually browse through. This kind of software is created with the purpose of stealing personal…
