KNOW THE THE THREATS TO YOUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY:
Threat:
Revealed IP Address
IP addresses show up in the web logs of visited sites, with time stamps
and specific URLs visited. Your research subject can easily identify
when you visited their site and which pages you viewed. They can even
serve a special page with different information based on your IP address
- see DID YOU KNOW above.
Solution:
Anonymizer's Anonymous Surfing service conceals
your IP address from visited sites and other outside parties.
Threat: Scripting
Attacks
JavaScript: Can harvest IP address, history file, email address,
and form contents. Can also leave hidden "spy windows."
Java: Can harvest IP address and history file. Can also allow the
attacker direct system access on some browsers.
ActiveX: Gives attacker absolute access to PCs, with virtually
any type of malicious action possible (virus, Trojan horse, drive scan,
etc.)
Solution:
Anonymizer's Anonymous Surfing service removes
Java, Javascript, ActiveX, and other potentially malicious code from visited
Web pages. Advanced options include "sandbox" technologies to
isolate and filter scripts before passing them through to the browser.
Threat: Web Bugs
An invisible 1x1 pixel image file loaded to a web site by a third
party. Can send cookies and scripts through to hard drives, often
circumventing browser preferences.
Solution:
Anonymizer's Anonymous Surfing service blocks
Web Bugs from reaching the hard drive.
Threat: Cookies
Cookies can track the movements of a web user across thousands of web
sites, and report this information back to the source of the cookie.
Solution:
Anonymizer's Anonymous Surfing service can be
set by the user to block cookies, or encrypt them to disable long-term
tracking (useful for the many sites that require cookies to work properly).
Threat: Packet Sniffing
Sophisticated attackers can intercept the contents
of all communications to and from a computer via packet sniffing.
Solution:
Anonymizer's Secure Tunneling SSH service encrypts all communications
from the computer to the Anonymizer servers, establishing a personal
VPN and protecting all communication content, including Web surfing,
mail, and other protocols.
Threat:
Intermediary Surveillance
ISPs, network administrators and others with direct access to the user's
Internet connection can log and view all Internet activity passing through
their servers.
Solution:
Anonymous Surfing offers an option to encrypt URLs (but not page content)
to prevent URL logging. For deeper protection, Secure Tunneling encrypts
all communications, preventing intermediaries from intercepting any
content, including Web surfing, email, and other Internet protocols.
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