Browsers’ Private Mode Is Not So Private

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Giovanni Panasiti

During the last Usenix Security Symposium was presented a research by G. Aggrawal, E. Bursztein, C. Jackson, and D. Boneh. This research was published as a PDF and you can download it.

According to their research the “private mode” features offered by the major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari) don’t work as promised.

In theory these features should let you to browse the Web without leaving any trace on your computer , but they don’t. For example when you visit a website that uses SSL security certification,also if you are using Firefox, IE, and Safari “private mode”, this visit will be recorded in a file on your computer.
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Serious Safari Security Flaw Found: A Bug Makes Vulnerable Your Personal Informations

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Giovanni Panasiti

If you are among the more than 80 million people who use Apple’s Safari browser to surf the web, you may want to change your settings stat.

At the moment, if you are a Safari user, who surfs the web visiting web pages and stuff, a malicious website can uncover your first name, last name, work place, city, state, and your email address. Even if you’ve never been there, or entered any personal information, before.

PhotoFiltre: Todd Klassy

This is possible using an exploit discovered in Safari’s AutoFill that allows malicious websites to extract a user’s first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address. They don’t even need to fill out a form to trigger the bug: It can occur simply by their loading the site and takes place in just seconds. WhiteHat Security’s Jeremiah Grossman has described it in greater detail.
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How To Surf The Web Anonymously: Proxy Servers

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Giovanni Panasiti

If you want to surf in the web anonymously, if you want to hide your IP address, there are a lot of free proxy servers that you can use to secure your web browsing activities.

Proxy servers allow you to surf in the Web without leaving any trace of your passage. They also allow you to bypass firewalls due to censorship filters, schools, universities or any other case where yo are forbid to browse the web like you do at home.

Photocredit: ukaszSie

If you are in your office and a firewall doesn’t allow you to access some websites a proxy server is what you really need.

When you surf in the Web your privacy is constantly at risk. When you are in Internet everything you do is recorded by Internet providers and by the servers that host the web sites you visit. All this information is collected without you even noticing, and these could be given away to third-party services.
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Simultaneous Anonymous Browsing In Firefox: Private Browsing Window

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Giovanni Panasiti

With version 3.5, Mozilla introduced in Firefox a new feature: Private Browsing. For those who don’t know, Private Browsing is a particular state of Firefox which allows people to browse anonymously on the web, without leaving any trace into the browser’s history, cookies, complement data, etc.

Unfortunately this feature in Firefox is not very practical to use: in fact, you have to close your actual session in order to start it.

Luckily there’s a plugin, Private Browsing Window, that lets you open a new completely independent anonymous window, like it is in Chrome’s Incognito Mode, so that you don’t need to close the current browsing session.
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List Of The Best Add-On To Improve The Security Of Our Firefox Web Browser

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Giovanni Panasiti

While surfing the main thing is to pay attention to safety. For this reason, today, I submit to you this list of the best add-on to improve your browser’s security.

Here the list:
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How To Make Your Firefox Safer With Links Checker: LinkExtend

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Giovanni Panasiti

There’s no way to reduce to zero your risk of picking up some piece of malware while browsing.

Much emphasis has been placed on the enhanced security features of the latest versions of the popular browsers. Whether one is any safer than another is anybody’s guess, but no browser gives you more ways to thwart a Web-based attack than Firefox via its wealth of security add-ons.

Today I want to present a fantastic add-on that lets you browsing safer, its name is: LinkExtend
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