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IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
At IBM Research, we’re inventing what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,441 posts.
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Looking back at how Signal works
In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication. We’ve gotten a lot of questions at Signal over the past week, so we wanted to briefly recap how it ...
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Blur Tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
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Tor Browser 9.5
Tor Browser 9.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
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We ditched Google Analytics
We asked ourselves if it was time to switch to a less invasive analytics app than Google Analytics; one...
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Twitter, Reddit support challenge of visa applicant social media requirement
WASHINGTON – Twitter, Reddit, and Internet Association filed an amicus brief late yesterday in support of a lawsuit filed last year by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP on behalf of plaintiffs Doc Society and International…
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Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2019)
Learn cryptography in Go by building ciphers, hashes, password security, and encryption tools. Understand security beneath the library call.
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Rootless Containers
Rootless containers is a new concept that don’t require root privileges in order to formulate, but have some unique challenges.
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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
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Safe-Linking – Eliminating a 20 year-old malloc() exploit primitive
Research by: Eyal Itkin Overview One of our goals for every research project we work on in Check Point Research is to get an intimate understanding of how software work: What components do they contain? Are they vulnerable? How can attackers exploit these vulnerabilities? And more importantly, how can we protect…
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SSH Agent Explained
The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.
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Signal PINs
At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours.
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WeChat Surveillance Explained
This document provides a summary of the Citizen Lab's WeChat surveillance research findings, as well as questions and answers from the resesearch team.
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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
Huawei has seemingly stepped its foot into the kernel self-protection game with the release of HKSP. Absent any threat model and riddled with weaknesses, it also introduces a trivially exploitable local root vulnerability due to a complete lack of defensive programming.
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We Chat, They Watch
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Nazar: Analyzing malware that was uncovered in leaked NSA files
In mid-2017, The Shadow Brokers exposed NSA files in a leak known as "Lost In Translation".Recently, researcher uncovered "Nazar", a previously-unknown APT that was mentioned in the leak.We decided to dive into each and every one of the components and share our technical analysis. What we found out, is far from being…
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A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
An example-rich description of the architecture of static code analysis systems along with a hands-on tutorial on how to implement it.
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The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust
Our team, DeisLabs , recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet , which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes . Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and is primarily…
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Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git is underrated (2019)
Hashicorp Vault hogs the limelight as cost-effective powerful KMS solutions are hidden in plain sight. Click here to explore Mozilla SOPS.
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SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
A few of our favorite SSH tricks and tips sure to improve your daily experience.
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At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.