Lenovo, Superfish, and SSL: How Adware Broke the Browser
Adware like Superfish can severely compromise your computer’s security, and you may not even know it’s installed. Here’s how it works and some options for how you can protect yourself.
Adware like Superfish can severely compromise your computer’s security, and you may not even know it’s installed. Here’s how it works and some options for how you can protect yourself.
The recent highly targeted watering hole attack on Forbes.com demonstrates how this sophisticated attack methodology puts people in harm’s way. Fortunately tools exist to protect you.
Once known for it's anonymity properties, TOR's structure is rightfully coming under fire.
Listen to Ntrepid Chief Scientist, Lance Cottrell, as he discusses his ReadWrite article about the new breed of hackers on WBEZ's Tech Shift.
The actions of changing your IP address and deleting all your cookies are not enough to prevent a website from identifying you. In this episode I will talk about how browser fingerprinting can greatly impact your web scraping activities, and what actions you can take to remain anonymous.
In this episode I will be talking about how cookies and other information you provide can impact your web scraping success.
What do you know about your proxy's anonymity? Since many proxies leak information to the hosts they access, it might be time to take a deeper look.
In theory, crowd sourced security offerings like Tor present users with a promising solution. However, in reality, not knowing who operates the nodes opens organizations up to potentially serious security issues.
With a keen eye on cutting edge technologies, Ntrepid has always focused on saving customers time and money with scalable solutions. Nutanix did this for Ntrepid as well with its platform’s simplicity, fast implementation, and massive scalability.
A vast majority of organizations say that preventing and detecting security incidents is much more difficult today than it was 2 years ago. Why? Fifty-nine percent say that cyber-attacks are more sophisticated than they were 2 years ago, 45% claim that cyber-attacks are more frequent than 2 years ago, and...
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