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 ...

Developers of the Firefox browser want to better protect user privacy by limiting the amount of data contained in Referer headers. The "meta referrer," as the new feature is dubbed, is aimed at ...

Mozilla announced the availability of a meta referrer header in Firefox 36 beta. The meta referrer provides users with policy options limiting the personal data sent in web requests. The HTTP Referer ...

If you’re running WordPress, did you notice a recent change in your analytics where more traffic is being attributed to direct traffic or a no-referral bucket? When WordPress updated to 4.7.4, the ...

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 ...

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 ...