Web Page Load Times Double Due to Trackers Trackers, those microscopic bits of pixie dust that web pages and advertisers insert into web pages to track our activities, make a significant negative contribution to user experience. Full disclosure – this study was done by Ghostery, who makes software – free software – that blocks these […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco Will Eliminate Hard Coded Passwords One Per Month It seems like every patch cycle, Cisco admits to another app that has an undocumented hard coded password. I have lost track of how many of them they have removed so far, but the number is scary large. What is more scary is that I bet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple sources are reporting a feature of iPhone apps that is a major privacy concern. This is not new and it also is an issue on Android phones, but, for some reason, everyone seems to be highlighting the problem with iPhones. PERHAPS, that is because it it is being exploited in the wild on iPhones […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago, Android users were fighting something called the Stagefright bug. Buried deep in the bowels of the operating system was a series of bugs that would allow an attacker to send you a specially crafted text message and take over your Android phone. Stagefright affected close to a billion phones in the […]
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