Knowing the Trackers using Collusion

I learned Collusion when I was browsing Ted.com‘s video talks under the internet category. On Gary Kovac’s Tracking the Trackers, he elaborated how our activities are being tracked online. We might only be accessing few sites, but we are mostly unaware that a lot out there have their eyes stick on what we are doing.

By the way, Collusion works with Mozilla as an add-on and here are the quick and easy steps that you need to do so as to get it work.

1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/.

2. Click Download.

3. On the next page, click on + Add to Firefox.

4. Another window might appear and just click Install Now.

5. Installation successful.

To begin using Collusion, look at the right lower side of your Firefox and you will see a halo-like icon. And just begin browsing.

Getting to my trial, I actually logged in for 6 sites only  — Facebook, WordPress, Twitter, LinkedIn, Cisco and open a single page for a searched word in Google. And I find the results both cool and a bit creepy. I really don’t know the other sites, but it seems that they have already connected to what I’m doing. Here’s what I got.

If you point over the dots, you will see how they are connected.

Here’s a sample of the connectivity appeared though I don’t actually logged or browsed into their webpages.

And here’s the connectivity of the few websites I actually logged in:

I hope the creators could enhance more this tool i.e., auto-get of the IP address.

Shakey’s Page was Hacked?!

Shakey’s website seems to have been hacked and messed up their page.

At first, I thought it was just a plain joke from one of my colleagues. But when I jumped into the link, there’s really something odd on their page.

I compared two links so as to verify if it’s true or just a hoaxed “hoax” thing.  The first one is a link to the compromised page, which will direct you to the URL and landing page below:

URL:

Landing page:

On the page, you’ll see some sort of their recent posts. Notice that I highlighted two links in the screenshot above.

When you click the first link…whoala…it will open to an obscene picture of a girl. While the second link will open to this funny page below.

I tried to go then to their main website http://www.shakeyspizza.ph/.

It seems nothing wrong on the page, though I noticed that their Promotions feed box is also showing the same posts as to the said hacked page.

I don’t know if Shakey’s is already aware of this as it seems to be running on their page since January 1.

It can be funny (to some-to-many), but to the company, this can be  something serious to the security of their site.

Is this just part of their online marketing strategy? (…which, I strongly doubt)

Who knows?! I dunno…

Unless they’ve spoken and take action.