It’s always a pleasure to receive mail (or e-mail) from former students. Jürgen Pabel graduated from the MSIA program in June 2004. He is an experienced network engineer and security consultant for ...

Websites can find out from which site a visitor came from a link from the information in the HTTP referrer. This also means that if you flip it over, you will be 'knowing what kind of link you ...

Monday night Google posted an update on the Google Webmaster blog named Upcoming changes in Google’s HTTP Referrer. It read: Starting in April, for browsers with the appropriate support, we will be ...

Mozilla Firefox will soon include a revised Referrer Policy to tighten up queries and better protect user information. Firefox 87, due to ship on March 23, will cut back on path and query string ...

Mozilla has announced that it will introduce a more privacy-focused default Referrer Policy to protect Firefox users' privacy, starting with the web browser's next version. The new user privacy ...

Beginning in Chrome 85, Chrome will check if there’s a referrer security header. If none is present, Chrome will automatically default to a strict header. Publishers who need the full URL to be passed ...

Jacob is a technology writer and researcher. He's also an avid sports fan, especially when it comes to the Chicago White Sox. When not working, you can usually find him tweaking his Android devices or ...

Facebook's latest privacy problem should raise a few eyebrows. Facebook sharing "private" data in unexpected (and occasionally unwelcome) ways is nothing new, but this newest problem is unusual, in ...