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Towerwall Security Alert V13.79 - How to clear out cookies, Flash cookies and local storage

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Michelle Drolet

by Mark Stockley This quick fix will show you how to clear out cookies and the cookie-like things that can be used to track you online. If you already know what cookies are all about then you can skip the next bit and go straight to the instructions.

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Facebook leaks are a lot leakier than Facebook is letting on

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Michelle Drolet

Remember last week, Facebook leaked email addresses and phone numbers for 6 million users, but that it was really kind of a modest leak, given that it's a billion-user service? OK, scratch the "modest" part. The researchers who originally found out that Facebook is actually creating secret dossiers for users are now saying the numbers don't quite match up. The number of affected users Facebook noted in a posting on its security blog is far less than what they themselves found, and Facebook isfalse

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