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Stories about: visitor tracking

Hacker Releases Tool for Producing the Ultimate Persistent Cookies A newly released open source tool allows webmasters to create extremely persistent cookies, which get stored in several different places through a variety of methods.Dubbed "evercookie" the JavaScript API is the creation of Samy Kamkar, the former hacker who brought MySpace to a halt in 2007 after releasing a cross-s... 22 September 2010 09:51 GMT Disney, Warner Bros and Others Sued for Spying on Internet Users A complaint filed last week in California alleges that several companies including Disney, Warner Bros. Records, Ustream and others have installed illegal codes on millions of computers with the purpose of tracking the online activity of their owners.At the center of the suit, which seeks Class action status, are the... 17 August 2010 06:17 GMT Koobface Gang Begins Tracking Its Victims A new Koobface campaign gathers statistics about people who land on the fake video pages pushing the malware. The worm's authors have embedded code from a free visitor tracking service.Koobface is a computer worm, which spreads on social networking websites. Originally launched in mid-2008 on MySpace, different ... 2 August 2010 04:26 GMT