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Inside the Minds of Tech CIOs

We had the pleasure of speaking at Artis Ventures Enterprise Disrupt 2014 Conference in San Francisco last week to an impressive audience of tech industry visionaries, entrepreneurs, CTOs and CIOs. We introduced our Passages secure browser and shared our insights on enterprise cyber security.

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Browser Fingerprints and Scraping

https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-5-Browser-Fingerprints-Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #5 My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode I will be talking about how browser fingerprinting can impact your web scraping activities. In the last podcast I touched on the issue of browser fingerprinting. In this episode I want to dig...

Cookies and Web Scraping

https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-4-Cookies-Web-Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #4. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode I will be talking about how cookies and other information you provide can impact your web scraping success. When setting up a web scraping process, many people’s first instinct is to remove as...

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International Data Scraping Episode

Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast, Episode #3. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode, I will be talking a global perspective on information scraping. I have a problem with the phrase “The Internet”, because it implies that there is a “thing” out there, and that if we...

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Malware Protection

https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid-Podcast-2-Nfusion-Malware-Protection.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid Podcast: Episode 2. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this episode, I will be talking about the threats from the new breed of hackers and malware and how virtualization can be used to protect yourself. The nature and purpose of malware has...

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Improving Data Harvesting

https://ntrepidcorp.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/Ntrepid_Podcast_1_Scraping.mp3 Welcome to the Ntrepid audio briefs: Issue Number 1. My name is Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist for Ntrepid Corporation. In this issue, I will be talking about collecting big data against resisting targets. Big data is the big buzzword right now, and rightly so. There’s really two kinds of big data...

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Overcome Big Data Web Scraping Obstacles

In this podcast I talk about collecting big data against resisting targets. Data harvesting from public websites often happens at a scale that quickly alerts the target and leads them to take countermeasures. I discuss the kinds of countermeasures they can take, and how best to avoid detection in the...

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Antivirus Pioneer Changes Course

Symantec finally had the courage to admit what many in the security community have been saying for a long time: “Antivirus is dead”. Rapidly evolving threats and zero day vulnerabilities routinely circumvent conventional antivirus solutions. It is critical to handle infection without compromising valuable data or resources. Passages isolates malware...

Online Filter Bubbles Are Here

In his 2011 Ted Talk, Eli Pariser raised concerns that our view of the world was being distorted by algorithms making choices to customize what we see based on our preferences. Running a geographically distributed network provides us insight into just how diverse the Internet is and how different it...