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Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all
Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority.
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Security & Privacy
The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 4,441 posts.
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Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer
The Sophos Blog
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Sunsetting Tor Messenger
In 2015, we introduced Tor Messenger, a cross-platform chat program that aimed to be secure by...
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Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)
Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns
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Curl audit: How a joke led to significant findings
In fall 2022, Trail of Bits audited cURL, a widely-used command-line utility that transfers data between a server and supports various protocols. The project coincided with a Trail of Bits maker week, which meant that we had more manpower than we usually do, allowing us to take a nonstandard approach to the […]
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The weaponization of travel blacklists
[A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate…
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This one […]
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Bank of America Giving Access to Random Accounts
Today, we received an invoice for one of our expenses. To send the payment, I logged into Bank of America's website to use their ACH (Automated Clearing
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Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design
TCC is meant to protect user data from unauthorized access, but design flaws mean users and malware can bypass TCC, even by accident.
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Hacking root EPP servers to take control of zones
Finding vulnerabilities in global domain infrastructure to take control of ccTLD zones. Vulnerabilities in EPP
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Cascade: CPU fuzzing via intricate program generation
Cascade is a RISC-V CPU fuzzer that generates valid , long and complex programs, and relies on a termination cascade-effect for bug detection. It detected 37 new bugs (29 new CVEs) in 5 RISC-V CPUs, which is more than all the existing fuzzers, combined. You can read a paper we wrote on Cascade here and try it out here…
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Requiring secure contexts for all new features
Since Let’s Encrypt launched, secure contexts have become much more mature. We have witnessed the successful restriction of existing, as well as new features to secure contexts. The W3C TAG ...
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Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
Seed generation of Trust Wallet was flawed, the total entropy was only 32 bits. We have created a file containing all possible seeds. Fortunately, the Ledger Donjon discovered the vulnerability very quickly and likely avoided one of the biggest hack in the crypto ecosystem.
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Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach
UPDATE: MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation Confirms Equifax Data Breach Due to Failure to Install Patches Provided for Apache® Struts™ Exploit The Apache Struts Project Management Committee (PMC) would like to comment on the Equifax security breach, its relation to the Apache Struts Web Framework and…
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues, they are marred by an ugly set of restrictions on what users and...
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Passkeys – Under the Hood
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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Simple SSH Security
Simple SSH Security Within a couple of minutes you can improve your SSH security significantly.
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How to fight back against Google FLoC
Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer.
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United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
The Sophos Blog
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In China, Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Political Opinions
China's social score system is full of rumor and speculation. We clear up the misconceptions and explain how the credit system really works.
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GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container
Help lock down your containers with these Kubernetes Engine features and guidance
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Exploiting null-dereferences in the Linux kernel
Posted by Seth Jenkins, Project Zero For a fair amount of time, null-deref bugs were a highly e...