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State of Industrial Control Systems in Poland and Switzerland
TL;DR New update for Kamerka allows to map Industrial Control Systems of whole country. As in previous version, interactive map is created…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,772 posts.
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Let's Clarify Some Misunderstandings Around Sign in with Apple
tl;dr This is a good move for users in the iOS ecosystem, and is primarily designed as an alternative for apps that currently use "Sign in with [Facebook/Twitter/Google]" to avoid leaking sensitive user info. Yes, Apple is entering the ...
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Firefox Personal Data Promise
Tech companies are using the word “privacy” a lot these days. What do they mean when they say it? To one company, privacy means keeping your informatio
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Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom
Guest Post: A Swiss data centre leaked over 70,000 routes to China Telecom, some for over two hours.
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Identity Is Dead
First published April 2018.
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How does Apple privately find offline devices?
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
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Sealed Rust: A plan to bring Rust to safety critical software domains
Part 1 - The Pitch
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Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations.
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When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
What if I told you that on nearly every single website you visit, data about you was transmitted to dozens or even hundreds of companies, all so that the w
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development. A
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TSA-style body scanners are coming to public spaces
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice and Homeland Security
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Abuses show Assange case was never about law
It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short sentence includes at least three factual errors. In fact, to repeat it, as so many people do, you would
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Information Security Mental Models
Mental models frame how we think about the world. This article describes how they work and why we need more of them in information security.
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
Browser fingerprinting is a hidden way websites and third parties can identify your web browser based on a mix of device details, settings, and system characteristics. Firefox helps prevent browser fingerprinting with built-in protections designed to reduce that tracking and give you more control over your online…
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Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
Guest Post: Traffic going through a public DNS in Taiwan was rerouted to an entity in Brazil for about three and a half minutes.
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Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?
Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated infractions. As this…
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The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017)
OpenSSL's inadequate documentation, confusing key formats, and deprecated interfaces make it difficult to use, despite its importance.
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ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
Proton Mail disputed some of the content of the post originally published at this location. We will continue the discussion directly with Proton Mail, in particular at a meeting in …
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Building Facebook's Service Encryption Infastructure
We run one of the largest microservices deployments in the world, with thousands of services that perform billions of requests per second. Keeping information secure as these services communicate g…
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I can see your local web servers
How many web servers are running on your machine right now? Do all of those development web servers have a secure login, and restrictive CORS permissions? You don’t know? Allow me to check for you:
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What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
You know how it happens. You try to secure one Congressional campaign, and then another, and pretty soon you can't stop. You'll fly across the country just to brief a Green Party candidate in a district the Republicans carried by 60 points. You want more, more, always looking for that next fix.
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The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (2016)
Posted by James Forshaw, path’ological reverse engineer.How the Win32 APIs process file pat...
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Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam
It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but I've seen a recent influx in outright scams. Let me step you through a couple of examples. A typical click-bait headline…