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Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship
The German government is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship list.
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 187 posts.
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Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California
FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. The unfolding scandal is soaked in irony: Azano is a...
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Google Docs Users Targeted by Phishing Scam
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
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Was jquery.com compromised?
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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BrowserStack Post Mortem (Shell shocked)
Official transparency report on the November 2014 BrowserStack security breach involving a legacy prototype server (Shellshock). Incident fully resolved. BrowserStack is now SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR compliant. Trusted by 50,000+ companies.
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TCP backdoor 32764 – how we could patch the Internet (or part of it)
Eloi Vanderbéken recently found a backdoor on some common routers, which is described on his GitHub here. Basically, a process that listens on the 32764 TCP port runs, sometimes accessible from the WAN interface. We scanned the v4 Internet to look for the routers that have this backdoor wild open, and gathered some…
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Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous
What happened Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of...
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Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
The Sophos Blog
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Bypass PayPal's Two-Factor Authentication
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Speeding up and strengthening HTTPS connections for Chrome on Android
Posted by Elie Bursztein, Anti-Abuse Research Lead Earlier this year, we deployed a new TLS cipher suite in Chrome that operates three tim...
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Security for the people
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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The newest threat on the official Android market
Google Play: Whats the newest threat on the official Android market?
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ComputerCOP: Dubious 'Internet Safety Software' Police Distributed to Families
[caption]ComputerCOP in Maricopa County, Arizona[/caption] For years, local law enforcement agencies around the country have told parents that installing ComputerCOP software is the “first step” in protecting their children online. Police chiefs, sheriffs, and district attorneys have handed out...
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DEFCON Capture the Flag Qualification Challenge #1
Today, we are excited to announce the introduction of Elastic Endpoint Security.
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Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers
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...
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Introducing Transport Layer Security in pure OCaml
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Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync for Android
At Open Whisper Systems, we believe users should have both privacy and powerful services. Today we’re releasing Flock, a private cloud sync service for your personal data. Your contacts and calendars belong to you. So does your privacy. Flock makes it possible to have both.
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Chaos Computer Club Website Blocked by UK ISPs
A significant portion of British citizens are currently blocked from accessing the Chaos Computer Club's (CCC) website. On top of that, Vodafone customers are blocked from accessing the ticket sale...
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OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update
Yesterday the OpenSSL Project released an update to address the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability, nicknamed “Heartbleed.” This serious vulnerability affects a..
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A call to arms: Helping Internet services accept anonymous users
Looking for a way to help the Internet stay open and free? This topic needs some dedicated...