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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Microsoft on Friday warned users that a critical bug in ASP.Net could be exploited by attackers to hijack encrypted Web sessions and pilfer usernames and passwords from Web sites. The vulnerability ...

Dark Web marketplace Hansa has launched a bug bounty program to deal with security issues that might allow other hackers or law enforcement to identify and deanonymize the site's owners and users. The ...

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 ...