Research released Monday shows that the use of surveillance technology popularly known as Web bugs is on the rise, putting online companies in a precarious position with the consumers they're snooping ...

A privacy group hopes to scare Web bugs out of hiding. The Privacy Foundation released free software Thursday that helps consumers detect when a site or e-mail ...

In Vita v. New England Baptist Hosp., __ Mass __, __ N.E.3d __, 2024 WL 4558621 (Mass. Oct. 24, 2024), the court held that the Massachusetts wiretap statute does not criminalize interception of web ...

As a follow-up to an article I wrote earlier this year on the perils of HTML e-mail, today I’m looking at how to defeat e-mail tracking services that use Web bugs. Web bugs are very small (often only ...

Following up on a successful bug bounty program that pays hackers for finding security flaws in its Chrome browser, Google now says that it will pay cash for security bugs reported on its websites.

One of her friends had signed her up for an event in London, where hackers aim to find the vulnerabilities in a particular piece of software. Without any experience of cybersecurity, beyond being a ...

It's time once again to update your iPhones, iPads, Macs, and even your Vision Pro headsets, as Apple has just released a patch to address a serious bug that the company claims is currently being ...

Traditional Web site and app bug bounty platforms, such as HackerOne and BugCrowd, have been successful in that old-world model. But there is a massive difference between the existing “Web 2.0” bug ...