I am very excited that we have finally released our new free “Anonymizer Nevercookie” product. You can download it here from our facebook account. It enhances the private browsing mode in Firefox to protect against a whole range of new kinds of tracking cookies that currently are nearly impossible to delete.

Today we are releasing the results of a survey on how people understand the risks of going on-line, and what does and does not work to protect against various threats.

One of the most interesting results was that a significant majority of respondents thought that firewalls provided identity protection on line. While important, they are addressing a very different threat.

More information on our results can be found here.

RIM averts BlackBerry ban in UAE | Security – CNET News

The announcement provides very little information about what RIM did to avert the ban, whether they made significant changed (compromises) to their system, or whether the UAE blinked and backed down from the threatened ban.

We discovered a major security hole in Facebook almost by accident. The exploit is so trivial I can’t justify calling it hacking. Any time you are on an open WiFi and accessing Facebook, anyone else on the same network can easily grab your credential and access Facebook as you with full access to your account.

We have posted a video demonstrating this to YouTube as well as putting it in the Anonymizer Labs section of our website.

We are working hard to improve our website and would welcome your suggestions and feedback on how to improve it.

One new addition is our Knowledge Center where we are trying to share information about privacy and security issues. Within the Knowledge Center we have a section we call “The Lab” (click the tab in the Knowledge Center).

Anonymizer’s R&D team is always discovering new and interesting things so we decided we should set up some place where we can share them. To kick off the new section we have posted two videos. The first is a frightening video about Facebook security, and the second is a video of me which introduces the issue of on-line privacy. We plan to post more articles, white papers, and videos going forward.