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PuTTY 0.68 has been released
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Time to Encrypt the Cloud
From typing a business letter to taking pictures with friends, the internet has changed every part of our lives. We don't just share information with people, we also want it synced across our computers, tablets, and phones.
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Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead
After toiling with Cross-Site Request Forgery on the web for, well forever really, we finally have a proper solution, it's Same-Site Cookies.
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Zerocoin implementation bug
Firo is a digital currency with a focus on setting privacy standards.
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Dutch House of Representatives passes dragnet surveillance bill
On February 14, 2017 the bill for the new Intelligence and Security Services Act was passed by the Dutch lower house. Despite being met with serious opposition from experts, regulators, civil society, political parties and citizens, the revised bill passed virtually unchanged from the proposal submi
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Riseup moves to encrypted email in response to legal requests
After exhausting our legal options, Riseup recently chose to comply with two sealed warrants from the FBI, rather than facing contempt of court (which would have resulted in jail time for Riseup birds and/or termination of the Riseup organization). The first concerned the public contact address for an international…
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Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples
Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the model to make a mistake; they’re like optical illusions for machines. In this post we’ll show how adversarial examples work across different mediums, and will discuss why securing systems against them…
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Attacking the Windows Nvidia Driver
Posted by Oliver ChangModern graphic drivers are complicated and provide a large promising attack...
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The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention
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Video calls for Signal now in public beta
Today’s Signal release for Android and iOS includes beta support for video calls. This represents an entirely new calling infrastructure for Signal, and should increase voice call quality as well. We think it’s a big improvement, but we’re rolling it out in stages to collect feedback from people ...
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Encrypted email is still a pain
Today I sent an email to somebody who specified that he "prefers GPG mail". I didn't have any GPG set up, so I just sent a normal email, which worked perfectly well. But it made me look in to GPG, and this is what I learnt...
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Basic Security Precautions for Non-Profits and Journalists
Basic security precautions for non-profits and journalists in the United States, early 2019.
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Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext
Google recently launched GPUs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which will allow customers to leverage this hardware for highly parallel workloads. These GPUs are connected to our cloud machines via a variety of PCIe switches, and that required us to have a deep understanding of PCIe security.
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Cryptographically Secure PHP Development
Your field guide to building secure cryptography features in PHP
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Introducing Docker Secrets Management
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Finding Ticketbleed
Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed.
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Violating Terms of Use Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Court
Have you ever violated a website’s terms of use, such as by using something other than your real name on a website that requires one, or by sharing your account password with a family member when doing so is prohibited? Probably. Have you ever clicked “I agree” without actually reading the terms in...
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How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013)
A front-page report in today’s New York Times based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirms that the NSA, like the DHS, uses airline reservation data as part of its profiling and social network analysis of US citizens and foreigners. Today’s report also raises new questions, and suggests some…
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HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
That's it - I'm calling it - HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point] where it's gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past.
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How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern
In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...