We are happy to announce the release of the latest version of Anti-Beacon! Live Monitoring: Introducing the Live Monitoring Feature. Witness every move attempted by unimmunized trackers. It’s n...
https://www.safer-networking.org/new-anti-beacon-4-1-with-live-monitoring/
When following a certain link on the Mastercard website, visitors will be served online scareware faking a malware infection and trying to sell a cure. Some years ago, Boon was a popular prepaid ...
https://www.safer-networking.org/mastercard-website-links-to-scareware/
Google’s Safe Browsing helps to identify and stop malicious URLs. But if it is just using the Lookup API part of it, it also transmits every tested URL, which could be regarded as legit, but po...
It’s time for another update to Spybot Anti-Beacon. Anti-Beacon 3.9 brings the usual small bugfixes (e.g. updates to OpenSSL 3.0), some preparations for localized versions to come, and a massiv...
https://www.safer-networking.org/wrapping-up-the-week-releasing-spybot-anti-beacon-3-9/
We’ve been working hard on browser support for Spybot for the last few months. There are dozens of browsers out there these days (most of which are Chrome and Mozilla clones, of course, but all...
https://www.safer-networking.org/wrapping-up-the-week-improving-browser-support/
The 1st of February is called Change Your Password Day. We at Team Spybot usually do not celebrate this day, because a forced changing of passwords regularly usually leads to weaker passwords. Th...
https://www.safer-networking.org/default-dont-change-your-password-day/
Read to the end for a chance to get a free licence! This week a customer informed us that a competing product was flagging entries created by Spybot as PUPS (Possibly UnPopular Software). To find...
Welcome to the new format of our news. In “Wrapping Up The Week”, we’ll give you a weekly insight into what we’re doing. Here’s our first part: In order to be a member of the Microsoft ...
https://www.safer-networking.org/wrapping-up-the-week-command-line-scanner/
As a long established and well known innovator in computer privacy and security, Safer-Networking Ltd. has reacted to public demand and has released new versions of their award-winning anti-spywa...
https://www.safer-networking.org/new-releases-of-spybot-search-destroy-and-spybot-anti-beacon/
Have you experienced this? You visit a website and the advertising matches your activities and interests. How do advertising companies know our interests? Short answer: They don’t, but AdTech c...
https://www.safer-networking.org/your-privacy-why-do-we-see-these-ads/