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Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
Upon first launch, Sunrise invites you to create an account, then asks you to add a calendar. The first option, “iCloud Calendar”, brings you to a screen where the Sunrise app itself, in its native interface and code, solicits your Apple ID (iCloud) email address and password.
EU "Chat Control" and Mandatory Client Side Scanning
On the 11th of October, Dutch parliament organized a hearing on the EU “Chatcontrol” proposal, with a focus on client side scanning. Dutch parliament had earlier passed two motions calling on the Dutch government not to support this proposal, but our government has declared it will ignore those motions. This hearing…
Why Privacy Matters
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Cell-Site Simulators Aren’t Secret Anymore
Digital analyzer. IMSI catcher. Stingray. Triggerfish. Dirt box. Cell-site simulator. The list of aliases used by the devices that masquerade as a cell phone tower, trick your phone into connecting with them, and suck up your data, seems to grow every day. But no matter what name cell-site...
Rust in the Android Platform
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep and Stephen Hines, Android Team Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the securit...
Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
On Tuesday, December 7th 2021 I discovered a critical vulnerability in Cloudflare’s Email Routing service. This vulnerabilty enabled anyone to modify the routing configuration of any domain using the service. A bad actor could have overwritten the destination address to their own email address in order to read any…
TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
💡Update May 18, 2025: I described TeleMessage's trivial vulnerability in an article for WIRED: How the knock-off Signal app used by Trump officials got hacked in 20 minutes Update May 19, 2025: Uh oh: DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage's archive server Update
Heartbleed Update v3
Stay ahead with the latest cloud computing, content delivery, and cybersecurity trends, expert analyses, and tech insights from the official Akamai blog.
On the Juniper backdoor
You might have heard that a few days ago, Juniper Systems announced the discovery of “unauthorized code” in the ScreenOS software that underlies the NetScreen line of devices. As a resu…
ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history
ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.
Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy
Whether you're a city planner, a small business owner, or a software developer, gaining useful insights from data can help make services work better and answer important questions. But, without strong privacy protections, you risk losing the trust of your citizens, customers, and users.
0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think
Facial recognition is an invasive and dangerous surveillance technology. When the government moves forward with pilot programs that will, if fully implemented, subject millions of people on a daily basis to the technology that should give us all pause.
MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
[Update] 2018-09-05 11:00 GMT+8, with the generous help from the AS64073, 103.193.137.211 has been promptly suspended and is no longer a threat. Overview MikroTik is a Latvian company founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. MikroTik now provides hardware and software for
Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics
As best I understand it, one of the most effective SEO things you can do is to repeat all the important words on your site down the bottom of the page. To save it from looking weird, you make the text the same colour as the background so people can'
Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach
Remember when OPM got breached last year [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach]? There was a lot of excitement in various parts of the world (namely the US) because here we had a government department (Office of Personnel Management), and they’d just lost 21.
A practical guide to securing Google Workspace for a startup
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Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets.
Getting 2FA Right in 2019
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta). If you have an account on PyPI, go enable your preferred 2FA…
Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
Self-hosting and paid subscriptions promise an escape from surveillance capitalism. What guarantees do they really offer, and at what cost?
Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?
Australia recently passed a law that correctly has people asking about the security and privacy of tools like 1Password.