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Enhancing digital certificate security (Fake *.Google.com cert issued)
Posted by Adam Langley, Software Engineer Late on December 24, Chrome detected and blocked an unauthorized digital certificate for the "*....
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Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA
Today is an incredibly important vote for the future of your digital privacy, but some in Congress are hoping you won’t find out. Finally, after weeks of delay, the Senate will start debate on the dangerous FISA Amendments Act at 10 am Eastern and vote on its re-authorization by the end of the day...
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China listening in on Skype - Microsoft assumes you approve
Fighting censorship with technology since 2011. We use AI to monitor censorship and expand free speech worldwide.
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Tor trip report to an FBI conference
In October I attended an FBI conference, as part of my work to try to keep Tor on good relations...
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EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill
We could be celebrating the New Year by ripping out the fiber optic cables that are sending copies of all our emails to the National Security Agency. But instead, Congress is planning on ringing in 2013 by re-authorizing parts of the FISA Amendments Act, the controversial 2008 bill that allows...
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Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Amazon Ads and Data Leaks
See part 2 of Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Full Disk Encryption. Earlier this month the eagerly awaited free software operating system Ubuntu 12.10 was released, and it includes a slew of new features (YouTube link), some of which have infuriated users because of privacy concerns. Over the last couple...
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Exploit Information Leaks in Random Numbers from Python, Ruby and PHP
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata
Some time ago, the website Vice.com posted an article with the somewhat full of themselves title “We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers”. In it, they reveal how they have been traveling with John for the better part of the week.
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A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law, the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus...
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Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole
"I can assure you that they would not be able to do that with the Bank of America security." The words of the Bank of America supervisor echoed in our
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You are committing a crime right now
Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18 USC 1030(a) (better known as the “ Computer Fraud & Abus...
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Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
From: FreeBSD Security Officer < security-officer@FreeBSD.org > To: FreeBSD Security < FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org > Bcc: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org , freebsd-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: secteam@FreeBSD.org Subject: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
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Google Address Sanitizer ("compile-time valgrind") to be part of GCC 4.8
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts
Today, we received an invoice for one of our expenses. To send the payment, I logged into Bank of America's website to use their ACH (Automated Clearing
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Web Cryptography API posted as W3C working draft
This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform…
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How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker.
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