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2019 Guide to Cryptographic Key Sizes and Algorithm Recommendations
A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 4,441 posts.
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The Crime of Speech
New EFF Report Maps Legal Threats to Free Expression in the Arab WorldFreedom of expression is a universal right, but the specific threats to it vary widely from country to country and region to region. As activists fighting for free speech worldwide, it is essential that we better understand the...
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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information
Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.
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An Intern's Experience with Rust
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog . My job was to port a security critical network processing…
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Symantec CA Response to Google Proposal and Community Feedback
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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Google to Encrypt All Keyword Searches
Boost organic search traffic with content strategy tools that help you build an SEO strategy, optimize your content, and track performance in one place.
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The low, low cost of committing cybercrime
The low, low cost of (committing) cybercrime, Author: Jan Kopriva
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Moving Towards a More Secure Web
To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not exp...
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CalyxOS now supports Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Android 12, Pixel 6
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Segment Security Incident
Segment's Incident and Scheduled Maintenance History
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Reproducible builds for Debian: a big step forward
This is the second article in the “reproducible builds” series. Previously: Improvements in testing and building: GitLab CI and reproducible builds. In the previous article, Improvements in testing and building: GitLab CI and reproducible builds, we discussed reproducible builds and our...
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OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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A vulnerability in WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Jenkins, OpenNMS and others
By @breenmachine What? The most underrated, underhyped vulnerability of 2015 has recently come to my attention, and I’m about to bring it to yours. No one gave it a fancy name, there were no …
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Django Security Release - 1.5.4
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 15, 2013
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Trusting transferred root certificates
Mozilla’s Root Store Program has taken the position that trust is not automatically transferable between organizations. This is specifically stated in section 8 of our Root Store Policy v2.5, which ...
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The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Charlottesville, Va.
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The need for memory safety standards
For decades, memory safety vulnerabilities have been at the center of various security incidents across the industry, eroding trust in technology and costing billions. T…
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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Technical Details on Today's Outage
Learn more about the technical details around the Falcon update for Windows hosts.
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We View Nikola’s Response as a Tacit Admission of Securities Fraud
Milton should be working with the formerly big 3. He is just another fraud like musk…
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Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2
We evaluate three leading AI models—Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-5—on their ability to solve Google reCAPTCHA v2 challenges and find significant performance differences, with success rates ranging from 28% to 60%.
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How To Opt Out of Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity
Facebook has announced that it’s teaming up with four of the world’s largest corporate data brokers to “enhance” the ad experience for users. Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai obtain information gathered about users through online means (such as through cookies when users surf the web) as...