An anonymizer is a system that helps users maintain their anonymity on the Internet, especially on the World Wide Web. They are intended to help maintain data protection and data security when surfing. In their function, they are similar to remailers, which are used to anonymize emails. Simple Anonymizers An anonymizer is used as a so-called proxy or a virtual private network … [Read more...]
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Technical Countermeasures of Browser Fingerprinting (Tracking Technique)
In our earlier article, we have explained that fingerprinting is a user tracking technique. It is used to uniquely identify and track end devices and thus users. The method does not require physical access to the device. In particular, the data generated by web browsers is used for fingerprinting, this is known as browser fingerprinting. The aim of the countermeasures is to increase privacy … [Read more...]
What Are DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning
DNS spoofing and cache poisoning are IT security attacks on the Domain Name System to forge the mapping between a domain name and its IP address. The purpose is to steer traffic to another computer unnoticed, for example, to carry out a phishing or pharming attack. If traffic is directed to an unreachable destination, it can be used to carry out a denial-of-service attack. The terms DNS … [Read more...]
How Browser Fingerprinting (Tracking Technique) Works
Fingerprinting is a user tracking technique. It is used to uniquely identify and track end devices and thus users. It has been or is used in various devices, such as typewriters, quartz watches in computers, digital cameras, mobile phones and PCs. The method does not require physical access to the device. In particular, the data generated by web browsers is used for fingerprinting, this is known … [Read more...]
What Are Digital Goods?
In economics, digital goods are all digitized economic objects that serve to satisfy the needs of economic agents. In economics, goods are divided into tangible goods, intangible goods (services) and digital goods with regard to their physical nature. Digital goods are a modern type of goods that have only emerged through digitalization and contain digital data. According to the degree of … [Read more...]
What is Crypto Anarchy
The term crypto-anarchy describes a practiced anarchy in cyberspace. Crypto-anarchists see a growing disparity between state empowerment and secrecy on the one hand, and state disenfranchisement and surveillance of the citizen on the other. They try to use the possibilities offered by cryptography and computer networks such as the Internet to reverse these conditions; i.e. to publish state … [Read more...]
How Darknet Market Works
A darknet market is a virtual marketplace that operates away from the open internet in the darknet. Basically, since such platforms are mostly illegal black markets, they are run as onion services on the Tor or I2P network. Only cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Monero are used as a means of payment. Darknet markets became known to a wide audience primarily through the rise and fall of Silk … [Read more...]
HTTP/3: Comparison With HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2
HTTP up to version 2 relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as the transport protocol. TCP acknowledges receipt of each data packet. As a result, in the event of packet loss, all other packets have to wait for the lost one to be retransmitted (head-of-line blocking). Google has been working on an alternative since 2012 under the name QUIC, which was adopted by the IETF and … [Read more...]
What is HTTP Cookie
A cookie is a piece of text information that can be stored in the browser on the user's computer about a website visited. A cookie is generated by the web server and sent to the browser via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The browser stores the cookie and, as long as it is not deleted, transmits it back to the web server each time a page is accessed. A cookie can also be generated and read … [Read more...]
What is Privilege Escalation
Privilege escalation is the exploitation of a computer bug or a design or configuration error in software with the aim of giving a user or application access to resources that cannot be used with limited rights. Most computer systems are designed as multi-user systems that include a concept for managing access rights. Privilege escalation means that a user is given rights that he or she does not … [Read more...]
What is a Pyramid Scheme
A Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme is the term used to describe business models that require an ever-increasing number of participants to function, resembling a snowball rolling down the slope and steadily growing at the same time. Supposed profits, or rather liquidity surpluses, arise almost exclusively from the fact that new participants participate in the system, contribute or generate their own … [Read more...]