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ACLU: ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing
The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays.
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 612 posts.
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Third-Party Audit of Rustls
In May and June 2020, Cure53 completed an audit of ring , webpki , and rustls . Their report ( PDF ) fully describes the audit, and makes for interesting reading.
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BGP and RPKI
We have been receiving occasional notifications, primarily via twitter from concerned customers who have visited 'isbgpsafeyet.com' and been told by the site's operator, Cloudflare, that their ISP is, apparently unsafe.
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They told you not to reply (2008)
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Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID
Prologue Bluezone ( Android , iOS ) is a Bluetooth-based contact tracing app sponsored by the Government of Vietnam and developed by a c...
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Defensive Programming
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Mitigations are attack surface, too
Posted by Jann Horn, Project ZeroIntroductionThis blog post discusses a bug leading to memory cor...
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Building a backdoor with Node.js
A backdoor in our code that can perform OS injection is a considerable threat.
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Exceptional failure: breaking the STM32F1 read-out protection
The firmware of microcontrollers usually contains valuable data such as intellectual property and, in some cases, even cryptographic material. In order to protect the confidentiality of these assets,
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SourMint Malicious SDK
The Snyk security research team has made two significant disclosures surrounding the Mintegral SDK. Learn about these SourMint vulnerabilities.
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A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft
Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and…
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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
Huawei has seemingly stepped its foot into the kernel self-protection game with the release of HKSP. Absent any threat model and riddled with weaknesses, it also introduces a trivially exploitable local root vulnerability due to a complete lack of defensive programming.
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Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
UPDATE 5/28: We are going to resume the rollout with the stable release of Chrome M84. More details . With the stable release of Chrome 8...
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Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
Over the past few weeks, Zoom’s use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today’s COVID-19 world. (My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris Johnson had a cabinet meeting over Zoom.) Over that same period, the company has been exposed for having both lousy…
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GPG and Me (2015)
I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn’t seemto be a popular choice these days, but I’ve received enough inspiring correspondence over the yearsto leave it be.When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the fee...
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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear
Veripol is a software that assesses the veracity of complaints filed with the Spanish national police. It was introduced in 2018, but it's unclear if it works as intended.
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An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Data-Transfer-Project
Since 2010, we have offered Download Your Information to allow people who use our services to access a secure copy of the data they have shared with Facebook. In 2018, we announced our participatio…
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Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution
Internet home of Raimondas Sasnauskas. Stories of my journey.