2-Day Outage
You may have noticed Cognitive Metropolis was offline for 2 Days. Yeah, that was my fault... It was that time of the year and NetworkSolutions wanted to gouge me again…
PSA: Serious Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser
UPDATE: Tails version 5.1 has been released. Upgrade now. Tor Browser in Tails 5.0 and earlier is unsafe to use for sensitive information. From the Tails website: We recommend that…
Internet Cookies for Beginners: What Are They and How Do They Work?
Do you know why, every time you visit a new website, you are faced with a pop-up asking you to accept cookies? Do you even know what you are accepting?…
Cover Your Tracks
When you visit a website, your browser makes a "request" for that site. In the background, advertising code and invisible trackers on that site might also cause your browser to…
Researchers demonstrate new browser-based side-channel attack that affects Intel and M1 Macs
A group of researchers has uncovered what looks to be the first browser-based side-channel attack that's built entirely from CSS and HTML. The JavaScript-free attack has been found to work…