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Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]

Webmonkey have secured themselves some good video interviews last week at Web 2.0 Expo. Here Douglas Crockford talks about the future of Javascript & HTML5.

Kaspersky is reporting that it’s AntiVirus solution is flagging Google Adsense ads as being infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar but which in fact are false-positives. The error message looks like this “The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar” Here’s what they have to say about the mater: “Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive [...]

A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]

Article from Techrepublic explaining ‘Flash Cookies’, or rather, Flash Shared Objects: Original article here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1424&tag=nl.e101

Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]