Cyber Monday Shopping Tips – Staying Safe While Online Shopping
This holiday season, stay protected from holiday shopping scams with Blur. Blur helps shoppers remain private online by providing ‘Masked’ information whenever companies are asking for personal information. Over 40% of holiday shoppers will make most of their purchases online this season, according to TransUnion. The average American will spend hundreds of dollars this year […]
Facebook and Instagram breach: what happened, and what to do about it
It’s unclear how many were impacted by the recent Instagram breach, but the recent Facebook breach could have impacted up to 50 million users. How was Instagram breached? A flaw in Instagram’s software allowing users to download their data accidentally exposed passwords in plain text. The irony is that this software was created in order […]
Twitter, Facebook, and Google are Fighting Internet Privacy Laws
Recently, the Information Technology Industry Council, which represents companies like Amazon, Visa, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, released its “Framework to Advance Interoperable Rules (FAIR) on Privacy”. On the surface, it looks like tech companies are trying to protect user privacy. In reality, they want to make sure that they can continue to profit off […]
Security in the Roaring 2020s
Bruce Schneier’s recent op-ed in the New York Times [“Internet Hacking is About to Get Much Worse”] argues that hacking threats have overwhelmed traditional IT security and that governments must intervene to fix market failure. His assessment of the problem is only arguably-inaccurate, but his proposed solution is almost certainly wrong. We do need […]
Safari Update: Blur Works with Safari 12
Apple recently released a major update to its Safari Web Browser. The Safari update is teeming with features; the most notable having to do with tracking prevention when shopping online (we’ll have more on that in a future post). If using Blur, you were probably greeted with this message after upgrading: “Safari turned off extensions […]
