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Authentication on meet.jit.si
What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 8,768 posts.
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New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet
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Have lots of AWS accounts
“You should have lots of AWS accounts” has moved to https://src-bin.com/substrate/blog/you-should-have-lots-of-aws-accounts/ .
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We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Building Safe AI: A Tutorial on Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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iOS 8 Privacy Updates
A summary of all iOS 8 Security and Privacy updates and their importance.
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Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private
The Sophos Blog
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ProtonMail Bridge is now open source
Our Bridge app is now open source for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Find links to the code and an independent security audit report.
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Hash-based Signatures: An illustrated Primer
Over the past several years I’ve been privileged to observe two contradictory and fascinating trends. The first is that we’re finally starting to use the cryptography that researchers h…
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Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [ SPOILER ALERT! ]…
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Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam
Update: Emails from Tutanota.com no longer go to Spam in Outlook.
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Web Security is Too Hard
It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferre…
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SSH commit verification now supported
GitHub now supports SSH commit verification, so you can sign commits and tags locally using a self-generated SSH public key, which will give others confidence about the origin of a…
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Outlook 2016’s New POP3 Bug Deletes Your Emails
Yikes, looks like the new version of Outlook 20016 has broken the POP3 implementation. If you are currently using the “leave on server and delete after x days” function, the you should check your account because it seems like that the new Outlook is actually deleting your emails almost immediately after retrieving…
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How to confirm a Google user’s specific email address
I reported an issue to Google, which allows an attacker to confirm whether someone is logged in to any one of a list of specific Google accounts.
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Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
Or, how to break all the tools that parse the "Fixes:" tag Kees Cook There was a recent discussion about how Linux's "Fixes" tag, which ...
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Introducing the Librem Key
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.
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Reversing the Petya ransomware with constraint solvers
With the advent of anonymous online money transactions (read Bitcoin ) ransomware has become a profitable business in the cybercrime indu...
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