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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 616 posts.
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Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex library
Going through the steps of using cargo fuzz to find bugs in Rust projects
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The Internet Archive Pushes Back on “Notice and Staydown”
The US Copyright Office sought comments in its ongoing study of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 512 safe harbor study. They are generally looking to find out how well the notice and takedown system is working for everyone—Internet platforms and users, as well as creators and copyright holders. We…
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Security Through Transparency
Posted by Ryan Hurst and Gary Belvin, Security and Privacy Engineering Encryption is a foundational technology for the web. We’ve spent a l...
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Robust Adversarial Examples
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Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
This morning, Adobe announced its roadmap to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020. Working with Adobe and other browser vendors, Mozilla has prepared a roadmap for Flash support ...
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Formal verification of the WireGuard protocol
WireGuard has undergone all sorts of formal verification, covering aspects of the cryptography, protocol, and implementation. Below details the various efforts.
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Password reuse and credential stuffing
The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions
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Managed SSL for Google App Engine
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine . This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication — an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a…
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ACLU and EFF Sue Over Warrantless Phone and Laptop Searches at U.S. Border
Lawsuit on Behalf of 11 Travelers Challenges Searches of Electronic Devices as Unconstitutional
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Debugging macOS Kernel Using VirtualBox
Update: In the HN discussion, awalton mentioned you can set CPUID flags in VMWare. Simply adding cpuid.7.ebx = "-----------0--------------------" to the vmx file will disable SMAP. Late last year, I upgraded my old MBP to the 2016 model with a Skylake processor. As I was debugging a kernel exploit, it turned out that…
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Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext
Google recently launched GPUs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which will allow customers to leverage this hardware for highly parallel workloads. These GPUs are connected to our cloud machines via a variety of PCIe switches, and that required us to have a deep understanding of PCIe security.
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Time to Encrypt the Cloud
From typing a business letter to taking pictures with friends, the internet has changed every part of our lives. We don't just share information with people, we also want it synced across our computers, tablets, and phones.
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Triple Flaw in Nest's Dropcam
Secure your Internet-connected home and family devices with advanced IoT solutions from Bitdefender Smart Home Cybersecurity.
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Decrypting Amber Rudd
1 Aug, 2017 Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc) have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and Amber Rudd is asking them to quietly drop end-to-end encryption from their products. You should not believe a single word any of those companies tells you about end-to-end…
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OneLogin: Breach Exposed Ability to Decrypt Data
OneLogin , an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.
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OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough
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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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