Below lies a list of analyses regarding security and privacy-focused topics. The security assessments make no attempt at evaluating security based on the number of former vulnerabilities in a particular program. Instead, criteria involve the software's overall security posture and ease of exploitation. Primarily, the…
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Linux is not a secure operating system . However, there are steps you can take to improve it. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy. This guide attempts to be distribution-agnostic and is not tied to any specific one. DISCLAIMER: Do not attempt to apply anything in…
Linux being secure is a common misconception in the security and privacy realm. Linux is thought to be secure primarily because of its source model, popular usage in servers, small userbase and confusion about its security features. This article is intended to debunk these misunderstandings by demonstrating the lack…
By default, Android has a strong security model and incorporates full system SELinux policies , strong app sandboxing , full verified boot , modern exploit mitigations like fine-grained, forward-edge Control Flow Integrity and ShadowCallStack , widespread use of memory-safe languages (Java / Kotlin) and more. As such…
Firefox is sometimes recommended as a supposedly more secure browser because of its parent company's privacy practices. This article explains why this notion is not true and enumerates a number of security weaknesses in Firefox's security model when compared to Chromium. In particular, it covers the less granular…