Does your browser feed the cookie monster--or starve it?
Not all tracking cookies are created equal, and as Google just reminded us, neither are the ways in which your browser handles them. Here's what the five major browsers do for your cookie 'problem'.

Privacy brouhaha reveals Google's split personality
Latest Google Internet controversy highlights conflict between privacy protection and advertising demands.

Privacy bouhaha reveals Google's split personality
Latest Google Internet controversy highlights conflict between privacy protection and advertising demands.

Privacy bouhaha reveals split within the Googleplex
Latest Google Internet controversy highlights conflict between privacy protection and advertising demands

Stanford University researchers break NuCaptcha video security
Borrowing from the field of machine vision, Stanford University researchers have discovered how to solve over 90 percent of NuCaptcha's are-you-a-human video challenges.

Mozilla contemplates nuking McAfee
The makers of Firefox say that a popular McAfee security add-on is causing enormous performance problems. Now Mozilla is strongly considering forcibly blocking it.

Microsoft denounces Google for bypassing Safari privacy settings
The company's heavy-handed, but potentially effective, PR assault on Google heats up based on a WSJ report that Google sneaked past Safari's privacy settings.

WSJ: Google tricked Apple's Safari in order to track users
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google used special code to sidestep the privacy settings in the browser and track Web users. Google says the Journal's got it wrong.

JotForm says domain suspended by feds
Company that hosts user-generated forms has domain disabled and is told to call the Secret Service.

Security experts: Apple did Mac OS X Gatekeeper right
The technology gives users choice in how secure they want their systems, but most people will stick with the more safe default mode that runs only trusted code.

What Gatekeeper in OS X 10.8 means for Mac security
Apple's next iteration of its Macintosh operating system has a new security feature, but how will this help secure your Mac?

Malware loves Android, but iOS users could be at risk too
A new study from Juniper finds that Android is the hardest hit by malicious apps but says iOS could be vulnerable as well.

Is Apple's iOS really safer than Android against malware?
A new study from Juniper finds that Android is the hardest hit by malicious apps but says iOS could be vulnerable as well.

EU court: Social networks can't be forced to monitor users
The European Court of Justice says forcing social networks to install monitoring solutions to prevent piracy is illegal.

Apple iOS developers: We'll adjust to privacy change
Developers say Apple's new mandate won't be too much of a burden, but many will need to modify apps that use address book data.