Comments on: Online Fraud Trends – Nigerians are learning Russian http://www.threatmetrix.com/fraudsandends/botnets/online-fraud-trends-the-nigerians-are-learning-from-the-russians/ News & Views on Fraud Prevention and Device ID Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: xoddam http://www.threatmetrix.com/fraudsandends/botnets/online-fraud-trends-the-nigerians-are-learning-from-the-russians/comment-page-1/#comment-2627 xoddam Sat, 08 May 2010 05:48:29 +0000 http://static.threatmetrix.com/blog/?p=8#comment-2627 Some web proxies are there to cache data and reduce the ISP bill, and possibly to keep tabs on you (eg. if they are provided by your employer for workplace web access.) They don't hide anything from anyone, and will keep copies of some of the data you download and probably a log of the sites you have visited. Others (anonymizing proxies) provide a service to you, the web surfer, to hide your identity from the web sites you visit. Use such services with caution: you are giving your details away to a third party in return for them hiding those details from the website you actually want to use. Without intending to impugn anyone in particular, I advise you to think about what sort of person might go to the expense of operating such a proxy service. Using any proxy with a regular browser will tell the proxy itself what you are doing, and will probably also leave traces on your own machine in the form of browser history and cache. Private Browsing in the newer web browsers is effectively the same as clearing your cache, cookies and history *after* you finish your "private" browser session. So it exists for rather a different purpose than a proxy. Some web proxies are there to cache data and reduce the ISP bill, and possibly to keep tabs on you (eg. if they are provided by your employer for workplace web access.) They don’t hide anything from anyone, and will keep copies of some of the data you download and probably a log of the sites you have visited.

Others (anonymizing proxies) provide a service to you, the web surfer, to hide your identity from the web sites you visit. Use such services with caution: you are giving your details away to a third party in return for them hiding those details from the website you actually want to use. Without intending to impugn anyone in particular, I advise you to think about what sort of person might go to the expense of operating such a proxy service.

Using any proxy with a regular browser will tell the proxy itself what you are doing, and will probably also leave traces on your own machine in the form of browser history and cache.

Private Browsing in the newer web browsers is effectively the same as clearing your cache, cookies and history *after* you finish your “private” browser session. So it exists for rather a different purpose than a proxy.

]]> By: Paid Proxy http://www.threatmetrix.com/fraudsandends/botnets/online-fraud-trends-the-nigerians-are-learning-from-the-russians/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Paid Proxy Fri, 29 May 2009 06:11:53 +0000 http://static.threatmetrix.com/blog/?p=8#comment-17 I heard that browsers like internet explorer currently come with Private Browsing - does anyone know if that's just as secure as using a web proxy? I heard that browsers like internet explorer currently come with Private Browsing – does anyone know if that’s just as secure as using a web proxy?

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