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Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
Posted by Jann Horn, Project ZeroWe have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to e...
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 316 posts.
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service. This post will talk a little about what that is and a lot about why we decided to do it.
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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
Eben gives you a crash course in how modern processors work to explain why Raspberry Pi is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.
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Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs
As of the end of July 2018, the Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1, is directly trusted by Microsoft products. Our root is now trusted by all major root programs, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. Today’s announcement that we’re trusted by all major root programs represents a major…
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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
Last week, we received the following email from Amazon: From: [redacted], [redacted] <[redacted]@amazon.com> Subject: Notification of potential account suspension regarding AWS Service Terms Moxie, Yesterday AWS became aware of your GitHub and Hacker News/ycombinator posts des...
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Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
Some people enter the technology industry to build newer, more exciting kinds of technology as quickly as possible. My keynote will savage these people and will burn important professional bridges, likely forcing me to join a monastery or another penance-focused organization. In my keynote, I will explain why the…
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and…
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Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
I regularly search for vulnerabilities on big services that allow it and have a Bug Bounty program. Here is my first paper which covers a vulnerability I discovered on one of Facebook’s servers.
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Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
In the near future, Firefox will -- by default -- protect users by blocking tracking while also offering a clear set of controls to give our users more choice over what information they share with sites.
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Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...
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Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol.
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Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Starting in version 59, Firefox Private Browsing will remove path data from Referrers sent to third parties. This will help prevent accidentally leaking data to third parties.
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How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites
A test that hijacked the Chrome back button to send visitors to a fake Google results page, then to mirrored competitor pages where heatmaps, sessions and typing were recorded. Google de-indexed the whole domain.
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GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
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DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
We're excited to launch a new browser extension and mobile app, extending DuckDuckGo's protection beyond the search box to wherever the Internet takes you.
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With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good intentions from bad law
In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad LawToday was a dark day for the Internet.The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing...
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Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF’s advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle’s website in a manner it didn’t like. The court ruled back in 2012 that merely violating a website’s terms of use is not a...
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No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
by Steven Englehardt [0], Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password managers, and form inputs. Today we report yet another type of surreptitious data collection by third-party scripts that we…
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JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
Posted by Jonathan Skelker, Product Manager It’s Halloween 🎃 and the last day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 🔐, so we’re celebrating t...
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Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)
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Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat
Combating cheats is an ever-evolving arms race. The scope and complexity of cheat development grows every year along with the stakes in online gaming. The pressure is on for game studios to level up when it comes to detecting and preventin…
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iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
UPDATE June 2, 2018: USB Restricted Mode did not make it into iOS 11.4. However, in iOS 11.4.1 Beta USB Restricted Mode Has Arrived A new iOS update is about