In this series , we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best…
We've gathered data on CCTV cameras in use in 120 major cities across the globe to determine which cities have the most surveillance cameras per person.
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
The problem isn’t your camera, it’s malware. Don’t install any software from unknown or sketchy sources, keep your OS up to date, and you should be fine. And if you do have malware on your Mac, the webcam is likely the least of your problems.
In a long-awaited decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). This is an important clarification of the CFAA’s scope, which should provide...
This document describes the web tracking practices that WebKit believes, as a matter of policy, should be prevented by default by web browsers.
