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Online Tracking Practices Face Increasing Scrutiny

Hunton Privacy

An ETag (or entity tag) is a cache control mechanism that can be used to store unique identifiers in a browser’s cache and track users even when cookies have been blocked and “private browsing mode” has been enabled. In order to block this tracking, the user would have to clear the cache between each website visit.”

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Alleged ‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Sought Media Spotlight, Got Indicted

Krebs on Security

The Daily Beast ‘s Kevin Poulsen broke the news last week that federal authorities in Alaska indicted Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Washington on two counts of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by using malware to damage computers between August and November 2017. 2018 that Schuchman was Nexus Zeta.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. While all computer viruses are malware, not all malware are computer viruses.