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19 articles

Why live chat agents can read your messages before you hit “Send”
  • tracking

How chat agents see your unsent messages

Did you know that live chat agents on websites can see everything — even messages you never actually sent? This post looks at how this works, and what you can do about it.

  • Alexey Sadylko

  • July 24, 2026

How VoidStealer bypasses Chrome's protections to hijack sessions and steal data
  • stealers

New VoidStealer Trojan bypasses Chrome’s stored data protection

The new VoidStealer Trojan utilizes a novel method to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption, allowing it to hijack sessions and steal user data.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 6, 2026

  • AI

Privacy settings in ChatGPT

A comprehensive guide to configuring privacy and security in ChatGPT: data collection and usage, memory, Temporary Chats, connectors, and account security.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • October 20, 2025

How to protect your cookies and session ID
  • privacy

Taking the biscuit: why hackers like cookies so much

We explain how cyberattackers intercept cookies, the role of the session ID, and how to keep your cookies from going over to the dark side.

  • Natalya Zakuskina

  • September 2, 2025

Triada: a Trojan pre-installed on Android smartphones out of the box
  • Android

Trojan embedded in fake Android smartphones

Counterfeit smartphones imitating well-known brands and offered online come pre-installed with the powerful Triada Trojan.

  • Dmitry Kalinin

  • April 25, 2025

The best private browser in 2025: where to flee from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
  • browsers

Privacy under attack: nasty surprises in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

How to counter new privacy invasions by browser developers

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • March 24, 2025

Privacy-Preserving Attribution by Mozilla: what is it and what’s it for?
  • privacy

Privacy-Preserving Attribution technology by Mozilla

In the wake of Google and Facebook, Mozilla has introduced its own technology for replacing third-party cookies: let’s take a look at how privacy-preserving attribution works.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • August 19, 2024

Googerteller lets you hear how tracking sounds
  • privacy

The sound of online trackers

Every time a browser interacts with an advertising tracker, a program called Googerteller emits a short sound.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 6, 2024

How to turn off Facebook link history and why
  • privacy

Why you should turn off your Facebook link history — and how

Facebook now collects your link history and uses it to show targeted ads. Here’s how to disable this “handy” feature.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • January 25, 2024

How and where to opt-out of Google Ad Topics for greater privacy
  • Google

What Google Ad Topics is, and how to disable it

We explore what Google Ad Topics is, how it functions, and how to disable it. Along the way, we discuss the related topics of Google FLoC, Privacy Sandbox, and the demise of third-party cookies.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • October 6, 2023

Hijacking a YouTube channel without a password
  • scam

Hacking YouTube channels with stolen cookies

How scammers can hack your YouTube channel without knowing a password and second factor.

  • Anastasia Starikova

  • June 6, 2023

How to block cookies in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge
  • Chrome

How to block cookies in your browser

Here’s how to configure cookies in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • January 31, 2022

We explain how to configure cookies to best protect your privacy and do an experiment to find out how important those settings are
  • privacy

How to control cookies: A real-world experiment

We explain how cookies affect your privacy online.

  • Igor Kuksov

  • January 12, 2022

Listen to your cookies with the Listening Back browser extension to understand the real scale of Web tracking.
  • 36c3

Why you should try listening to your cookies

Listen to your cookies with the Listening Back browser extension to understand the real scale of Web tracking.

  • Alex Perekalin

  • March 2, 2020

Incognito mode Q&A
  • FAQ

Incognito mode Q&A

What your browser’s private browsing mode does — and doesn’t — protect you from.

  • Mücahit Hoşcan

  • May 4, 2017

How to tame your Web cookies
  • privacy

How to tame your Web cookies

Everything you need to know about Web cookies.

  • Sarah Pike

  • January 16, 2017

How Internet ads work, part 3: tracking users
  • privacy

How Internet ads work, part 3: tracking users

The tracking tools used by digital marketers are so ubiquitous that it’s really hard to avoid mass Web surveillance. However, our Private Browsing can help you protect your privacy.

  • Flavio Negrini

  • December 7, 2016

Big Brotherhood: who is tracking us on web
  • cookies

Big Brotherhood: who tracks us on the Web

The Internet continues to find its way into the private lives of its users. Here, we brief you on the most common methods of online tracking.

  • Marvin the Robot

  • February 6, 2015

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  • cookies

Cracking Cookies: What You Need To Know

Have you ever been browsing the Internet and had a banner ad pop up for a product you’ve previously searched for? When you visit a favorite website, does it have

  • Cassie Bodnar

  • May 29, 2013

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