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 ...

Facebook is going to pay hackers to find problems with its website — just so long as they report them to Facebook’s security team first. The company is following Google and Mozilla in launching a Web ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...