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Containers is now available as a Firefox Extension, accessible to all Firefox users. Download Firefox Multi-Account Containers here. Back in June 2016, we started experimenting with “Containers” as a way to explore Contextual Identities on the web. Firefox Containers are a way for users to isolate their online…
When sophisticated adversaries want to hack a network, they ultimately win. A government mandated encryption backdoor would make Americans less safe.
Call congress now! Back in 2014 over 3 million Internet users told the U.S. government loudly and clearly: we value our online security, we value our online privacy, and we value net neutrality. Our voices helped convince the FCC to enact smart net neutrality regulations—including long-needed...
After seven years of development, Avast open-sources its machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files.
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps.
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIn this blog post we’ll complete our goal of achieving...
For 3 years AdNauseam has been used by tens of thousands of Chrome, Firefox and Opera users, who oppose the unethical surveillance advertising model. Now Google banned it from its Web Store on very dubious charges. Furthermore Google locked AdNauseam users out of their ad data. Today it's your privacy tool, tomorrow…
It’s no secret that hardware selection is one of the biggest hurdles Qubes users face. Finding a computer that is secure, trustworthy, and compatible is more difficult than it should be. In an effort to address the compatibility aspect of that problem, we introduced the Qubes-certified ...
Proton Mail is joining the cryptocurrency revolution. Bitcoin is one of our officially accepted payment methods. And no worries we will HODL for you!
News and tutorials on AI, Computer Vision, OCR, Anthropic Computer Use, LLM, and its applications in automating daily office tasks. In short: Robotic process automationation (RPA).
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Security and Privacy Engineering In support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products ( https://www.g...
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
As part of our efforts to continue protecting user privacy, we are launching a Tor hidden service to combat censorship and surveillance of Proton Mail users.
In Alice v. CLS Bank, the Supreme Court ruled that an abstract idea does not become eligible for a patent simply by being implemented on a generic computer. This 2014 decision has significantly reduced the harm caused by vague and overbroad software patents. Before Alice, patent owners who had...
KeePassXC Password Manager
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…
Security research and technical deep dives from the Appsecco team — cloud attacks, Kubernetes security, vulnerability analysis, and AppSec engineering.
Emil Mikhailov is the founder of XIX.ai [http://XIX.ai] (YC W17). Roman Trusov is a researcher at XIX.ai. Recent studies by Google Brain have shown that any machine learning classifier can be tricked to give incorrect predictions, and with a little bit of skill, you can get them to give pretty much any result you…
111 GB of internal customer information from National Credit Federation was left exposed in a publicly downloadable data repository. This is its story.
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...
We are excited to announce that Automated Certificate Management is generally available, at no additional charge, for all applications running on Hobby...
Open source technology encourages collaboration and innovation to address real world problems, including projects supported by Google Cloud. As part of our broad engagement with the open source community, we’ve been working with HashiCorp since 2013 to enable customers who use HashiCorp tools to make optimal use of…
Posted by Tali Dekel and Michael Rubinstein, Research ScientistsWhether you are a photographer, a marketing manager, or a regular Internet user, ch...
