Thom Craver

SlimStat Analytics Plug-in Makes Your Website Vulnerable

The Hacker News is reporting a major vulnerability with the popular SlimStat Analytics plugin for WordPress. The plug-in uses an encryption method for obscuring and encrypting data in transit as it goes from your visitor’s computers to your website. That encryption uses a “secret key” – effectively a password – to encrypt that data. The …

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Not Provided is Not the End of the World

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What’s This Not Provided Stuff About? Since 2010, Google has made encrypted search available to its users. When using encrypted search, your query (keywords) that were previously supplied to owners of the sites you clicked through to stopped being provided. Marketers and Web analysts who have come to measure site visitors by which keywords they …

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