Five ways to protect your privacy online
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Tips for keeping your Web activities secret, or as secret as the Internet allows.
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Use a virtual private network to protect yourself when connecting to the Internet from your hotel room.
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Six Ways To Keep Search History Private Questions are arising around the search engine world about the controversy of behavioral tracking by the search engines and privacy invasions such as the AOL Data leak and some governments demanding the search history or information kept secure by the major search engines of the world.  Most recently Brazil [...]
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By Tammy Krikorian, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 10--The Internet gives East Valley parents plenty to worry about. Teens go online to socialize with friends and strangers, post personal photographs and even pour out their deepest secrets.
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As a record number of people buy holiday gifts online, consumers should take steps to reduce their risk of having their personal details stolen.
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Privacy guaranteed? Sure, I'll cough up Ecommerce businesses could charge more for their wares if they implemented an established privacy technology, an academic report (pdf) has found. The study showed that online shoppers are prepared to pay more at sites that guarantee their privacy.â¦
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While it's easy to go undercover online, remaining anonymous is no sure bet. These virtual celebrities were ''outed'' on the Web.
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On Saturday, a London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, released the preliminary results of a six-month survey of Internet privacy practices. The organization evaluated 23 Internet companies on several criteria, and assigned each company a color-coded privacy assessment, ranging from green (&quot;privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing&quot;) to black (&quot;comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy&quot;).
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Now there are tools available online to safeguard against the theft of Social Security numbers.
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Reared on reality TV, paparazzi, cellphone cameras and the insatiable maw of the World Wide Web, it's no wonder teens and adults in their 20s think a little differently when it comes to privacy.
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Online recommendation systems are growing up -- and the spammers, fraudsters and thieves are moving in. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine.
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.
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Google's new Google Desktop Search tool raises a number of search privacy issues. In this article, we'll look at some of the usual specters of search privacy plus some new things people should consider.
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Privacy may soon become a much bigger deal to the Web 2.0 world.That&#39;s because Web 2.0&#39;s ability to mash up components from different Web sites into one customized user experience can also lead to a disconnect between the privacy users expect and what they actually receive, according to Jonathan Pincus, general manager of strategy development with Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group. &quot;In the Web 2.0 world, one of the really interesting changes is privacy becomes as important an issue as security,&quot; he said in a recent interview.&quot;Because there&#39;s so much more information out there and the lines of sharing it get so much blurrier,&quot; he added, &quot;people usually assume there are a lot more privacy guarantees then there actually are.&quot;Pincus predicted that this misplaced sense of privacy may ultimately be exposed in the most prominent of public policy forums: the tabloid press. &quot;At some point soon there&#39;s going to be some kind of major court case or high-profile divorce in which some kind of information from a social-networking site gets used as a key piece of evidence,&quot; he said. &quot;Sort of like what happened with Kobe Bryant and the phone records being available. People were kind of surprised, &#39;Oh they can get at the phone information?&#39; Stuff like that gives people a very different viewpoint on privacy.&quot;In 2004, a judge granted Bryant&#39;s lawyers access to text message records of a woman who had accused the Los Angeles Lakers basketball star of rape. The charges against Bryant were later dropped.Microsoft has been trying to promote itself as a leader in the online privacy space in recent months. On Tuesday, the company released data showing that attackers are increasingly targeting personal information.In the first six months of 2007, Microsoft counted 31.6 million phishing scams, a jump of 150 percent from the six months prior. The company&#39;s Security Intelligence Report also tracked a 500 percent increase in Trojan downloaders, which are malicious programs used to install other malware on victim&#39;s systems.&quot;As the security of the operating system improves, we are seeing cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated, diverse, and targeted in their methods of stealing personal information,&quot; Microsoft said in a statement on the report. &quot;Personal information is the currency of crime, and malicious attackers are targeting it to make their cyberattacks and other scams more authentic, credible, and successful, and to make a profit.&quot;However, one security researcher said that phishers may now be moving beyond ID theft and looking to even more lucrative areas, such as pump-and-dump stock scams. In these scams, criminals flood inboxes with e-mails promoting penny stocks and then sell shares when the stock price rises.&quot;Everything I&#39;ve read and seen suggests that these attacks may be successful in stealing information but that it is difficult for the attackers to turn that information into revenue,&quot; said Brandon Enright, a network security analyst at the University of California, San Diego, in an e-mail interview on&#160;Tuesday. &quot;The [Microsoft] study didn&#39;t cover pump and dump at all. I suspect if it had, they would have pump-and-dump scams growing much more rapidly than 150 percent over the previous 6 to 12 months.&quot;Two of the most organized online criminal groups -- the creators of the Rustock and&#160;Storm&#160;malware -- have turned to pump-and-dump scams, he added. &quot;They could execute basically any attack they wanted. They chose pump and dump. That says a lot about how lucrative the various attacks are.&quot;
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You wouldn't believe some of the sites that have fallen victim to this security threat, but Martin Heller tells you how to protect yourself.
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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A free web browser that promises users total  privacy whilst surfing on the web has been released.