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Facebook Expands Bug Bounty Amid Spiraling Privacy Scandal

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Amid a data privacy scandal that has blown up worldwide, Facebook has decided to make a few changes to “review developers' actions for evidence of misuse, implement additional measures to protect data, and give people more control of their information.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2018

A New Backdoor Around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act

There’s a new, proposed backdoor to our data, which would bypass our Fourth Amendment protections to communications privacy. It is built into a dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act, which would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the data is stored.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers

One of EFF’s strengths is that we bring together technologists, lawyers, activists, and policy wonks. And we’ve been around long enough to know that while good technology is necessary for success, it is rarely sufficient. Good policy and people who will adhere to it are also crucial.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Craigslist personals, some subreddits yanked after passage of FOSTA

Craigslist shut down its personals section on Friday in response to the passage of H.R. 1865, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) bill, in both houses of Congress on Wednesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 26, 2018

Snooping on HTTPS is about to get harder: TLS 1.3 internet encryption wins approval

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS), the key protocol that enables HTTPS on the web.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 26, 2018

Mozilla stops Facebook advertising, demands privacy changes

It’s probably not top of Mark Zuckerberg’s worry list this week but Mozilla Corporation, developer of the Firefox browser, is officially unhappy with Facebook.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 22, 2018

ICANN meets as internet overseers weigh website owner privacy

The group overseeing internet addresses is scrambling to balance the privacy of website owners and the right to know who is behind online pages.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2018

The Chrome extension that knows its you by the way you type

Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more secure than relying on passwords alone – but could it be made even better?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 16, 2018

Warning – 3 Popular VPN Services Are Leaking Your IP Address

Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in three popular VPN services that could leak users' real IP addresses and other sensitive data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 16, 2018

Firefox turns out the lights on two privacy-sucking features

Did you know that the websites you browse can ask your phone how far away your face is from the screen, and that they can determine the ambient light levels of the room you’re in? No, me neither, and I do this stuff for a living.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2018

23,000 HTTPS certs will be axed in next 24 hours after private keys leak

Customers of HTTPS certificate reseller Trustico are reeling after being told their website security certs – as many as 23,000 – will be rendered useless within the next 24 hours.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 01, 2018

Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet for Anonymous, Encrypted IM

The anonymity network Tor has long been the paranoid standard for privacy online, and the Tor Browser that runs on it remains the best way to use the web while revealing the least identifying data. Now the non-profit Tor Project has officially released another piece of software that could bring that same level of privacy to instant messaging: a seamless and simple app that both encrypts the content of IMs and also makes it very difficult for an eavesdropper to identify the person sending them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2015

Hacking tool swipes encrypted credentials from password manager

Using a password manager is one of the biggest ways that average computer users can keep their online accounts secure, but their protection is pretty much meaningless when an end user's computer is compromised. Underscoring this often ignored truism is a recently released hacking tool that silently decrypts all user names, passwords, and notes stored by the KeePass password manager and writes them to a file.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2015

Take 5 minutes and up your opsec game with Tor Messenger [Updated]

On Thursday, the Tor Project released its first public beta of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use, unified chat app that has security and cryptography baked in. If you care about digital security, you should ditch whatever chat program you're using and switch to it right now.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2015

Tor Project launches encrypted anonymous chat app to the public

The Tor Project has launched the beta version of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use encrypted message client for those concerned about their privacy and potential surveillance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2015

Turns Out Police Stingray Spy Tools Can Indeed Record Calls

The federal government has been fighting hard for years hide details about its use of so-called stingray surveillance technology from the public.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2015

Find a flash drive, pick it up: Study highlights poor city security habits

Nearly one in five people would give in to curiosity and plug abandoned USB drives into their systems, placing their personal security at risk.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2015

The Most Controversial Hacking Cases of the Past Decade

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the law that

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2015

Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws

Several versions of self-encrypting hard drives from Western Digital are riddled with so many security flaws that attackers with physical access can retrieve the data with little effort, and in some cases, without even knowing the decryption password, a team of academics said.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2015

This Secret Code in Your Printer is Helping Governments to Spy On You

According to a latest EFF research, it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2015

Linux Privacy - Page 14

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates