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Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
Starting on February 15, Chrome will stop showing all ads on sites that repeatedly display disruptive ads after they’ve been flagged.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,772 posts.
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Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets.
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Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing
I work with U.S. law firms as a non-testifying technical consulting expert on matters involving the Apple platform and iOS apps. Learn more about my litigation consulting.
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GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
Update 2018-04-19 - GitHub has implemented some rules around retiring "namespaces".
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Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...
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A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters
When the FBI Shows Up at Your Office with an NSL When you receive thousands of requests from law enforcement each year, it’s actually not a surprise wh
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Best practices for user account, authorization and password management
Google Cloud offers our best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system.
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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Get the details on how the built-in ad-blocker in Google Chrome works. The ad-blocker only kicks in on websites in violation of the Better Ad Standards policies.
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Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Starting in version 59, Firefox Private Browsing will remove path data from Referrers sent to third parties. This will help prevent accidentally leaking data to third parties.
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Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability
There is a lot of righteous anger directed toward Intel over CPU bugs that were revealed by Spectre/Meltdown. I agree that things could have been handled better, particularly with regards to transparency and the sharing of information among the relevant user communities that could have worked together to deploy…
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Advanced Denanonymization through Strava
Strava is getting some bad press, because its heatmap can be used to infer the existence and floorplan of various US/UK military and govt...
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EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
EFF has been working on multiple fronts to end a widespread violation of digital liberty—warrantless searches of travelers’ electronic devices at the border. Government policies allow border agents to search and confiscate our cell phones, tablets, and laptops at airports and border crossings for...
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Audio Adversarial Examples
Figure from our paper: given any waveform, we can modify it slightly to produce another (similar) waveform that transcribes as any different target phrase.
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Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture
The Qubes OS project has been around for nearly 8 years now, since its original announcement back in April 2010 (and the actual origin date can be traced back to November 11th, 2009, when an initial email introducing this project was sent within ITL internally). Over these years Qubes h...
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‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
ATM “ jackpotting ” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this…
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Terraforming 1Password
We are excited to finally have all our development, test, staging, and production environments managed with Terraform.
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
The Zirconium group successfully created and operated 28 fake ad agencies to distribute malvertising campaigns through 2017, buying an estimate of 1 billion ad views throughout the year, and reaching
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Ransomware as a Service
Ransomware as a Service, Author: Xavier Mertens
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Tinder's lack of encryption allows spying
The Sophos Blog
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About rel=noopener (2016)
2021 update: Browsers now implicitly set rel=noopener for any target=_blank link, following a spec change . If the demo on this page no longer seems scary, congratulations — you’re using a modern browser!