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We have thousands of posts on a wide variety of open source and security topics, conveniently organized for searching or just browsing.
Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with how their activities are being tracked. This focus on privacy and data security is ushering in a new era of security. Learn more in an interesting SecurityToday article:
You know about that one, much-hemmed-and-hawed-over, GDPR-ish, national, US privacy law? The one we don’t have? The lack of which means the country’s data privacy landscape is made up of a crazy quilt of state laws? Not happening. Not this year. Learn how this impacts your privacy in a great NakedSecurity article:
Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops. Learn more in an interesting Wired article:
I have a problem with this. These cameras don't just record license plates, but people, bicycles and animals. It indiscriminately records everything, not just traffic accidents. Cameras should not be a substitute for police doing their job. This data is being sold to and used by anyone who wants it - ICE, private citizens, and other government agencies. If you had a detective on the street corner or in front of your house 24/7 recording every vehicle passing by, the time it passed every day in perpetuity and people in the car, people would see that as an invasion of privacy. "I have nothing to hide" is something said by someone in a position of privilege - our landscapers, housekeepers, and others in our neighborhood in the wrong place at the wrong time are being targeted. Please comment below - we'd love to hear what you think.
After years of going nowhere, could web micropayments be the next big enabler for user privacy? Learn more in a great Naked Security article:
Isthis week’s test pilot launch of Mozilla Private Networkbethe moment browser VPNs finally become a must-have privacy feature? Learn more in an interesting Naked Security article:
Are you a Firefox user? Mozilla is officially launching itsFirefox Private Network VPN servicefor desktop users in the US. Learn more in a great The Next Web article:
Are you a Firefox user? Mozilla is increasing browser privacy with encrypted DNS. Learn more:
Google has open-sourced Differentially Private SQL, a tool for companies aiming to keep sensitive data private. Learn more:
Are you a Firefox user? Mozilla has finally enabled the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature for all of its web browser users worldwide by default with the official launch of Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Learn more:
Information mishandling, snooping and location tracking are often the ways in which users find their privacy violated online. Learn about these issues and how to avoid them in a great Security Today article:
Are you aware that GitHub has added WebAuthn support for biometric and security key logins? Learn more in this great Inquirer article:
Have you heard that spyware based on two-year-old AhMyth RAT has made it past Play Store's scans, despite not being anything special? Learn more in this interesting ZDNet article:
Have you heard that Google and Mozilla havestepped up their effortsto prevent Kazakhstan’s government from spying on citizens? What is your opinion on this? Learn more in this interesting article:
Have you heard about the recent leak affecting the hacking forum Cracked.to? Last Friday the forum's database of 321,000 members and 749,161 unique email addresses was leaked on rival site, RaidForums. Learn the details in this interesting article:
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
Are you aware that many organizations are questioning whether eliminating passwords as an authentication tool might augment their overall security posture? How do you feel about this?
Do you used Firefox or Chrome as your web browser? Are you aware that browser plug-ins can be a threat to your privacy?
Are you aware that you could be signing over the keys to your identity when filling out medical forms that promise to “anonymize” your information?
A new study reveals that you can be easily re-identified from almost any database, even when your personal details have been stripped out. Keep reading to learn the details. The data trail we leave behind us grows all the time. Most of it isn’t that interesting—the takeout meal you ordered, that shower head you bought online—but some of it is deeply personal: your medical diagnoses, your sexual orientation, or your tax records. The most common way public agencies protect our identities is anonymization. This involves stripping out obviously identifiable things such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and so on. Data sets are also altered to be less precise, columns in spreadsheets are removed, and “noise” is introduced to the data. Privacy policies reassure us that this means there’s no risk we could be tracked down in the database.