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Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity
Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition 43 and other modern browsers help websites to control third-party JavaScript loads and prevent unexpected or malicious modifications. Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a ...
France's Government Aims to Give Itself Carte Blanche to Spy on the World
The United States makes an improper division between surveillance conducted on residents of the United States and the surveillance that is conducted with almost no restraint upon the rest of the world. This double standard has proved poisonous to the rights of Americans and non-Americans alike. In...
Senator Wants to Make the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Even Easier to Abuse
This summer, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced an amendment to the flawed Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) that would make it even worse, by expanding the broken Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). EFF has proposed common sense changes to this federal anti-hacking law, many of which were...
The Inside Story Behind MS08-067
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Keybase's New Key Model
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Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications
Xiaofeng Zheng, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Jian Jiang, University of California, Berkeley; Jinjin Liang, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua National…
Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Posted by the notorious Tavis Ormandy.We’ve talked before about how we use Google scale to ...
Researchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not for DMCA
Automakers argue that it’s unlawful for independent researchers to look at the code that controls vehicles without the manufacturer’s permission. We’ve explained before how this allows manufacturers to prevent competition in the markets for add-on technologies and repair tools. It also makes it harder for watchdogs to…
Improved Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Stephan Somogyi, Security & Privacy PM, and Adam Eijdenberg, Certificate Transparency PM On September 14, around 19:20 GMT, Syma...
Popular Chinese iOS apps compromised in malware attack
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Disabling SSLv3 and RC4
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer As the previously announced transition to SHA-256 certificates is nearing completion, we are p...
Our First Certificate Is Now Live
Let’s Encrypt passed another major milestone by issuing our first certificate. You can see it in action here. Our cross signature is not yet in place, however this certificate is fully functional for clients with the ISRG root in their trust store. When we are cross signed, approximately a month from now, our…
Introducing Heroku Private Spaces
As the world becomes more cloud-centric, and more of our apps and business depend on its capabilities, the trust, control and management of cloud services
How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison passwords
Not long after the release of the Ashley Madison leaks, many groups and individuals attempted to crack the bcrypt hashes. Since t...
PayPal does not know how to detect fraud
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Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
As part of our effort to grow the Web platform and make it accessible to new devices, we are trying to reduce the Web's dependence on Flash. As part of ...
Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
The rollout of iOS 9 is expected to come this Fall and will introduce a new privacy feature called App Transport Security (ATS) to enforce ...
Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches
grsecurity is the only drop-in Linux kernel replacement offering high-performance, state-of-the-art exploit prevention against both known and unknown threats.