Forget about the cloak of anonymity on the Internet: Researchers from Concordia University in Canada have developed a new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Study co-... Read more
Online anonymity solutions provider Anonymizer, Inc. has released a beta version of Anonymizer Nevercookie, a Firefox plugin designed to fight Evercookie, a javascript API that produces extr... Read more
A British company has launched a new project that pays citizens to monitor live commercial CCTV footage online in an effort to catch criminals in the act. Internet Eyes will pay up to £1,000... Read more
Crime never sleeps, and now thanks to a new surveillance project, neither do the crime fighters. A company in Devon in southwestern England has launched a new website that pays citizens to m... Read more
While most consumers know about the risks associated with using the Internet and engaging in e-commerce, the majority still relies on inadequate measures to protect their privacy and identit... Read more
The New New Internet asked a host of cybersecurity industry expert what security issue they felt was most pressing. Here’s what Lance Cottrell of Abraxas had to say on the matter: “Mal... Read more
Cyber espionage, Advanced Persistent Threats and malware–cyberspace is full of threats designed to steal identities, intellectual property and money, as well as wreak havoc on computer... Read more
Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more... Read more
New companies aiming to help individuals and businesses protect their identities and web behavior from marketers are facing tough challenges in the marketplace. It’s not just competition fro... Read more
Lance Cottrell is chief scientist for Abraxas Corporation. He is responsible for corporate initiatives to advance privacy and information security issues across all domains of the company. H... Read more
This week, Abraxas’ Lance Cottrell shared with TheNewNewInternet what he thinks makes a good cyber professional: “When I think about the people that I have known, the one’s who h... Read more
This week, Abraxas’ Lance Cottrell talked about online privacy and how large-scale Internet surveillance would have significant civil-liberty without any security benefits. Mary Good o... Read more
From astronomy to cybersecurity, Lance Cottrell’s career path has not been the most direct one. But it makes sense: While Cottrell was pursuing graduate studies in astrophysics in the... Read more
Friday Features
This week, three executives talked about cybersecurity: John Watters of iSIGHT spoke to TheNewNewInternet about some of the major security threats in the cyber arena; Abraxas’ Lance C... Read more