With the ever increasing number and ways of Internet threats, the concerns about Private Internet browsing also increasing with each passing days. The data about your browsing habits, what you like and what you not, which sites you often visit; all these stuff is becoming more valuable both for fraudsters as well as advertisers, who understand the importance of targeted advertising.
One of the most common pool of information about your browsing habits is your browser itself. For years, your browser history has been used by the scripts and malware developers to steal that important information about you. And it is surprising to note despite the presence of this weakness for years, most of the browsers have not yet been able to come out with a definite solution for this privacy issue.
There are some easy scripts, which can get this data from your browser in seconds. I just came across two such scripts.
StartPanic
One is available at SartPanic. StarPanic.com is as website created for raising awareness about the private Internet Browsing. On the home page, you will find a button “Lets Start”.
Click on that button, and within a few seconds, you will find a list of sites, which you have recently visited. The exact code of the script used is not revealed by the website, but it seems that they are using some Javascript to determine this private information.
LinuxBox
Yet another script is available at LinuxBox website. They are also giving the details of the mechanism in which they gather the private date from your web browser.
A lesser known function in Javascript is currentStyle, which returns the CSS properties for an element in the document. Most web browser keep a record of visited URLs, so by setting different styles for a and a:visited, we can programatically determine if a link displayed in the document has previously been visited. Or, to put things more simply: your browser shows visited links in a different colour. Javascript can be used to spot that change in colour, hence tell if you’ve visited a particular site or not.
It seems that the NoScript Firfox Addon can help you to get rid of such browser weaknesses. NoScript Firefox Addon is surely one of the robust security and privacy tool for your Firefox Browser. But it takes the funpart out of the browsing and makes Internet a dull space. And also, there is no such alternative available, if you are using some other browser.
August 8th, 2009 at 12:54 am
You’re absolutely right here, Silki. With all the major websites, such as Twitter, Facebook and Live Journal have being hacked on 6th August, we should keep our eyes on our safety, especially when we’re browsing on the internet…
August 17th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Scarey stuff! Can you automatically purge your cache? Does it matter the browser you use?
September 13th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
so, there is no piracy anymore right?
September 14th, 2009 at 7:19 am
hi friends,
In today world there is lot of problem with digital information to protect them from hacker, advware programs & spyware. It is very serious problem of todays world. Thus we need to protect our personal as well confidential and public infromation from all of these type programs.
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March 29th, 2010 at 8:16 am
You not concern about your Browser History any more.
I recommend you use :
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September 1st, 2010 at 1:50 am
Total Internet Privacy is designed for individuals accessing the Internet from insecure Internet connections, such as wireless, or from countries with restrictive Internet filtering systems.
Anonymous Internet surfing by default simply doesn’t happen but it is possible. The most basic way of protecting your identity is to use an anonymous proxy to hide your IP address when you are surfing. Your communications can still be intercepted as the majority of that web traffic is in the clear but it’s less likely unless someone is deliberately targeting you, the main benefit is that your IP address is not left in the logs of the web servers and your web browsing will remain more private.