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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 233 posts.
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GET /browser.exe
Jon Howell dreams of a new Internet. In this new Internet, cross-browser compatibility checking is a distant memory and new features can be unilaterally be added to browsers without having to convince the world to upgrade first. The idea which makes this Internet possible is so crazy, it just might work.
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Chrome addons hacking: Bye Bye AdBlock filters
Continuing the Chrome extension hacking (see part 1 and 2), this time I'd like to draw you attention to the oh-so-popular AdBlock extension. It has over a million users, is being actively maintained and is a piece of a great software (heck, even I use it!). However - due to how Chrome extensions work in general it is…
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How to Find Facebook Users on Match.com by Using Face Recognition Tools
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Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes
UPDATE: it appears that the pathetic cowards who perjured themselves filing these maliciously false copyright infringement claims have chick...
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Feudal Security
It’s a feudal world out there. Some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google: We have Gmail accounts, we use Google Calendar and Google Docs, and we have Android phones. Others have pledged allegiance to Apple: We have Macintosh laptops, iPhones, and iPads; and we let iCloud automatically synchronize and back up…
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Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks
How I secured a ThinkPad: a Windows honeypot with Prey for thieves, TRESOR against cold boot, a USB boot stick for evil maids, and a separate Firefox user.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
From: FreeBSD Security Officer < security-officer@FreeBSD.org > To: FreeBSD Security < FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org > Bcc: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org , freebsd-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: secteam@FreeBSD.org Subject: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
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Disassembling the Woolworths Facebook scam
Who wants free stuff? C’mon, everybody wants a free lunch, right? Yes, yes they do and that’s precisely the trigger used in scams like this one. Recently I wrote about the mechanics of another Facebook scam [https://www.troyhunt.com/2012/10/she-did-what-in-school-mechanics-
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Mountain Lion quietly includes app blacklist and security restrictions
Today I went to launch VMware 4.1.0 on my OS X 10.8.1 Mac and was met with this surprising refusal to open:
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About Gatekeeper
Today’s Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I’d like to talk a little bit about it, and why it’s important to all Mac users.
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New PHP Vulnerability:?-s may expose source code for mod_cgi
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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