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UK courts have not been forthcoming with access to website blocking orders
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Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID and Still Think it is Awesome
True cyber security combines advanced technology and best practice. Get tips and read articles on how to take your online security even further.
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Going Beyond Vulnerability Rewards
Posted by Michal Zalewski, Google Security Team We all benefit from the amazing volunteer work done by the open source community. That’s w...
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Nice Security Mindset Example
A real-world one-way function: Alice and Bob procure the same edition of the white pages book for a particular town, say Cambridge. For each letter Alice wants to encrypt, she finds a person in the book whose last name starts with this letter and uses his/her phone number as the encryption of that letter. To decrypt…
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Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps the Internet backbone through secret agreements with major US telcos., but the US government still hasn’t admitted it. In late August, the Obama administration declassified a ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Footnote 3…
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Microsoft ‘Mortally Wounds’ SHA-1
Microsoft has announced that CAs in its root program may not issue certs signed using the SHA-1 algorithm, starting just over two years from now, and that Windows will start refusing to recognise such certs starting just over 3 years from now.
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Telegram secret chat geolocation leak
UPD: I've just received confirmation from Telegram, that a patched version was released a few hours ago. Here is the patch on github....
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NSA E-Mail Eavesdropping
More Snowden documents analyzed by the Guardian—two articles—discuss how the NSA collected e-mails and data on Internet activity of both Americans and foreigners. The program might have ended in 2011, or it might have continued under a different name. This is the program that resulted in that bizarre tale of Bush…
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Mozilla launches massive campaign on digital surveillance
Additional Perspectives from Mozilla: Mitchell Baker’s post, “Total Surveillance” Ben Adida’s post, “No User is an IslandR
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Licenses Over Data: A Case Study with Github v BitBucket
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Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password hints
Adobe had a little issue the other day with the small matter of 150 million accounts being breached and released to the public. Whoops. So what are we talking about? A shed load of records containing an internal ID, username, email, encrypted password and a password hint. Naked Security did
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The Snowden Principle
At the heart of Edward Snowden's decision to expose the NSA's massive phone and Internet spying programs was a fundamental belief in the people's right-to-know. "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them," he …
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How to add Two-Factor Authentication to your website with Google Authenticator
Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your Website with Google Authenticator and Twilio SMS
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Nordstrom Finds Cash Register Skimmers
Scam artists who deploy credit and debit card skimmers most often target ATMs, yet thieves can also use inexpensive, store-bought skimming devices to compromise modern-day cash registers. Just this past weekend, for instance, department store chain Nordstrom said it found a half-dozen of these skimmers affixed to…
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AppleTV 6.0 requires Fairplay-DRM Airplay Sources
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Open Source Backdoor – Copyrighted Under GNU GPL
Malware code can be very small, and the impact can be very severe! In our daily tasks we find a lot of web-based malware that…
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The Factoring Cryptopocalypse
The key detail to understand about the work in the Joux papers is that it is limited to solving discrete logarithm problems over fields of small characteristic . As interesting as the work is, mathematically, it should not be a great surprise to cryptographers: We've known for over a decade that small-characteristic…
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Why DRM is such a fucking stupid idea
Digital comics publisher JManga is collapsing . Two weeks from now you will no longer be able to "purchase" anything from them. Two months from now, anything that was "purchased" from them will cease to exist. If you spent hundreds of pounds in their store then, well, that's bad luck for you. This…