Notices tagged with security, page 3

135 tracker signatures in the @ExodusPrivacy scanner, and all 2325 reports recomputing! expect some interesting finds in the reports 🕵️ https://news.exodus-privacy.eu.org/ #privacy #security

Our Sean O'Brien: "If India is to meet the challenge of cyber security as Prime Minister Modi has proposed, the challenge must be met with honesty, even if it is brutal and exposes flaws in administration or implementation." #privacy #security

https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/bsnl-cyber-security-could-have-been-fixed-two-years-ago/story/272034.html

135 tracker signatures in the @ExodusPrivacy scanner, and all 2325 reports recomputing! expect some interesting finds in the reports 🕵️ https://news.exodus-privacy.eu.org/ #privacy #security

"Just imagine if other governments of the world instructed their citizens and local carriers not to ink deals with Apple on account that the US government might have ways to crack iOS, regardless of whether that’s true or not." #privacy #security https://bgr.com/2018/02/14/iphone-encryption-backdoor-us-government-huawei-zte/ https://mastodon.social/media/PX6lFwNMjItL64-ZyvI

clever use of RTL to fake file extension and deliver malware "Telegram for Windows converted files with names such as 'photo_high_regnp.js' to "photo_high_resj.png,' giving the appearance they were benign image files rather than files that executed code" #security https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/telegram-app-purged-of-critical-flaw-attackers-were-actively-exploiting/

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"Hovering computers will make it increasingly possible to hack equipment that doesn’t connect directly to the internet." #privacy #security https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610196/cyber-warfare-is-taking-to-the-skies-aboard-drones/

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Our Sean O'Brien on #Aadhaar security: "Whenever a security researcher looks at an official government Aadhaar app, there are blatant privacy problems and sloppy cyber-security, such as sending data over the Internet unencrypted." http://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/bad-aadhaar-cybersecurity-tramples-on-the-right-to-privacy/story/270425.html #privacy #security

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PriBot: ask basic questions about a privacy policy and get answers via AI chat. Polisis: visualize the data collection and sharing allowed by a privacy policy. https://pribot.org #privacy #security https://mastodon.social/media/KHmQqQ_Sxk3YuGolY5I

small privacy tweaks can make a big difference for end-users. "To help prevent third party data leakage while browsing privately, @Firefox Private Browsing Mode will remove path information from referrers sent to third parties" https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/31/preventing-data-leaks-by-stripping-path-information-in-http-referrers/ #privacy #security

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anonymous communication, crash course in 7 slides by Carmela Troncoso. cc @torproject @i2p http://carmelatroncoso.com/talks/CTroncoso_AnonComms_CPDP2018.pdf #security #privacy

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"The picture in question appears to be legitimate, though a large dose of skepticism is always warranted in cases such as these." https://news.bitcoin.com/leaked-document-appears-to-show-nsa-infiltrated-cryptos-tor-vpn/ #privacy #security

Alex "Sandy" Pentland at Davos in 2014 - "Creating a Digital Ecology That Works". Is the world closer or further from "trusted networks" at WEF 2018? https://www.wired.com/video/wired-live-creating-a-digital-ecology-that-works #privacy #security

"...initial infections appear to be based around IP cameras... this only appears to be an initial starting point for carrying out attacks against other hardware." http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-unsuaul-new-iot-botnet-is-spreading-rapidly-by-using-peer-to-peer-communication/ #security

"The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking, raising significant concerns from civil libertarians." https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-customs-license-plate-recognition-contract-vigilant-solutions #privacy #security

new South Korean law prohibits "shovelware", #NetNeutrality violations, "search-rank twiddling", "native advertising, advertorial, etc", and "anti-adblock". In a country with "some of the strictest, most punitive liability in the world for breaking DRM" this will be interesting..

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/25/a-bird-to-catch-the-spider.html #privacy #security https://mastodon.social/media/wVOmty8IAsQAhCo_Buc

these UI / UX changes are huge for crypto trainers 🙌 #privacy #security

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75-released

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once again, on this issue of app review. sure, this doesn't scale well into the millions of apps (not with a small crew), but knowing what you're shipping users is better than inflating app store numbers and the inevitable scams, trackers, & malware that follow #security #privacy https://mastodon.social/media/fbQV-tWR1E_reV1qMcU