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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 612 posts.
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Threema Goes Open Source
Threema Goes Open Source, Welcomes New Partner
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Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents
Linkedin and Reddit both check your clipboard and copy and paste your clipboard contents with every keystroke - even when you’re in another app. Another
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Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet
Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot , a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot uses to plunder…
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Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers
My Chinese takeaway delivery was late. Very late. I flipped open the confirmation email sent by Just-Eat to double-check I had all the details correct. At the bottom was a "click to call" link. Hurrah! I clicked dial, and this is what filled my screen: An absurdly long phone number. Bemused, I went to inspect the link…
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Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering
Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Project ZeroIntroductionIt was a normal week in the Pro...
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An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE
Nowadays, Bluetooth is an integral part of mobile devices. Smartphones interconnect with smartwatches and wireless headphones. By default, most devices are configured to accept Bluetooth connections from any nearby unauthenticated device. Bluetooth packets are processed by the Bluetooth chip (also called a…
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Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
Discover how BeyondCorp assists in securely restricting access to internal websites, ensuring organizational data remains protected.
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FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
This blogpost summarizes the result of a cooperation between SoloKeys and Doyensec, and was originally published on SoloKeys blog by Emanuele Cesena. You can...
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Dissecting an SSL Certificate (2017)
Dissecting an SSL certificate
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New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
From August 15th, GitLab Support will no longer be manually removing MFA from free accounts.
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Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career?
Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Here’s a look at a recent survey that identified some of the bigger skills gaps, and some thoughts about how…
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Everything old is new again: binary security of WebAssembly
Daniel Lehmann, University of Stuttgart; Johannes Kinder, Bundeswehr University Munich; Michael Pradel, University of Stuttgart
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Off-Facebook Activity Is a Welcome but Incomplete Move
Today Facebook announced the roll-out of its Off-Facebook Activity tool (initially introduced as “Clear History” nearly two years ago). The tools shows you a list of apps, websites, and businesses that Facebook knows you have visited through its business tools (including Facebook Login, Facebook’s...
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Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period
We're crowdsourcing ideas and recommendations to help us enhance the privacy and security benefits of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for users around the world
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Deprecating password authentication in GitHub API
Get started with one of our guides, or jump straight into the API documentation.
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DKIM: Show Your Privates
If you’re like most people, there’s a good chance that it’s been years since you’ve sent an email that wasn’t cryptographically signed. You don’t use PGP, you say? Well, even if you are…
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Revisiting Apple Notes (6): The Protobuf
TL;DR : This post explains portions of two protobufs used by Apple, one for the Note format itself and another for embedded objects. More importantly, it explains how you can figure out the structure of protobufs.
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FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
A Akamai é a empresa de cibersegurança e computação em nuvem que potencializa e protege negócios online.
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UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.
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TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs
We are in 2020 and the US president is about to ban TikTok, a video-sharing social network mobile app, because “it poses a risk to US…
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