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Site Isolation in Firefox
With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.
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Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government
On Monday, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR), have filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Prosecutor General's office. The complaint is...
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Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal
At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discovery for a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, and today we’ve published a new private contact discovery service. Using this service, Signal clients will be able to efficiently and s...
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Google pulling China CNNIC CA from its products
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
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How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws
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Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption
The members of the Global Encryption Coalition’s Steering Committee issued a statement on the EU-US collaboration against encryption.
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Section 215 Expires For Now
Senate to Vote on USA FREEDOM Act Later in the WeekSection 215 has expired. At least for now.The law that the NSA used to authorize its collection of vast amounts of information about the telephone calls of ordinary Americans is no more. Even though it’s likely temporary, it’s a good thing and we...
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What happens when you swipe a credit card
Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card, but far fewer understand the underlying systems enabling their payments. So let’s dive…
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations
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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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Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which a...
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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
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Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
The Assistance and Access (A&A) law requires tech companies to help law enforcement agencies break into individuals’ encrypted data.
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Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle %
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Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor
Unveiling a scheme flooding vulnerability across major browsers. Learn how it threatens anonymous browsing.
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iOS 11 Horror Story: The Rise and Fall of iOS Security
We loved what Apple used to do about security. During the past years, the company managed to build a complete, multi-layer system to secure its hardware and sof
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With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
Microsoft had an ambitious goal with the launch of Windows 10: a billion devices running the software by the end of 2018. In its quest to reach that goal, the company aggressively pushed Windows 10 on its users and went so far as to offer free upgrades for a whole year. However, the company’s...
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TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
TikTok has violated privacy regulations before, and they are in position to share millions of American users' data with the Chinese government.
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Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
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Is Gmail killing independent email?
People report that self-hosted emails always end up in Gmail spam. Is there anything Google can do about it?
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Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?
Is Grammarly a keylogger? Here's what to consider so employees can reap the benefit of this valuable tool without compromising data security.
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CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
The U.S. military used biometric devices en masse to capture people in Afghanistan. Some devices were left behind during the hasty withdrawal of NATO troops. CCC researchers found large amounts of...
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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
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“Should you encrypt or compress first?”
Appcanary makes sure you never run vulnerable software on your servers. Like our blog? Subscribe to our newsletter or podcast . Browse the archive , or follow us on twitter , github or rss .
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Lastpass Security Incident
Please refer to the latest article for updated information.nbs[..]
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Tailscale Has Partnered with Mullvad
Since Tailscale was founded in 2019, customers have been forced to choose between either Tailscale or Mullvad without the ability for them to co-exist.