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This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block All HTTP Requests" in Chrome. If you already use...
This report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
Today, we are excited to announce the introduction of Elastic Endpoint Security.
An order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withhold information from the court whenever it thinks...
At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to protecting our customers’ privacy. This includes providing clear choices and easy-to-use tools that put you in control of how your information is collected and used. Trust is a core pillar of our More Personal Computing vision, and we are working hard to make sure Windows 10 is…
Here are some of the top areas we focused on in our fight against bad ads in 2015.
We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates. We are thankful our community cares enough to
This time, we’ve chosen a smart hub designed to control sensors and devices installed at home. It can be used for different purposes, such as energy and water management, monitoring and even security systems.
How we built a reverse-CAPTCHA for agents, and what we learned.
Written by Sergei Shevchenko and Adrian Nish BACKGROUND Since the release of the ETERNALBLUE exploit by ‘The Shadow Brokers’ last month se...
We are thrilled to announce that the core security features of the Elastic Stack -- like TLS encryption, RBAC, and both file and native authentication -- are now free.
Last week, we released our first annual State of Open Source Security report. One of the discoveries the report mentions is that an analysis of around 433,000 sites found that 77% of them use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability. In this post, we take a deep dive into that…
How we built an authorization system based on Google Zanzibar
We have been receiving occasional notifications, primarily via twitter from concerned customers who have visited 'isbgpsafeyet.com' and been told by the site's operator, Cloudflare, that their ISP is, apparently unsafe.
Just as you take steps to protect your personal safety and health while engaging in real-life encounters, a sex worker should also be mindful of the dangers of the online world. As we wrote in a separate blog post today, the sex worker forum MyRedBook, along with its companion sites, have been...
An example of how you can encrypt Postgres data at rest using PGO, the open source Postgres Operator from Crunchy Data using AWS EBS gp2 volumes.
A series of nicely formatted documents about Snapchat by GibSec.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
A few hours ago Ronald Prins of Fox-IT (@cryptoron) was tweeting about NBC.com infecting its visitors with malicious software (malware). We were investigating this as well and found the following i…
