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Enhancing Online Privacy and Anonymity with Whonix as Your Digital Shield

In today's landscape of pervasive digital surveillance and privacy concerns, Whonix is a hardened Linux distro that provides a robust solution for safe and anonymous Internet usage. Whonix Gateway and Workstation provide an innovative dual-component ...
Nov 06, 2024
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Explore Tor Browser 14.0 Updates: Enhanced Privacy and Security Features

Tor Browser has long been recognized for providing anon...
Oct 28, 2024
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Practical Tips for Protecting Email Privacy on Linux

Email remains an indispensable digital communication to...
Oct 23, 2024
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Adobe working on privacy boost for Flash

Adobe working on privacy boost for Flash

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Adobe has finally made moves to improve 'cookie' management and privacy in its much maligned Flash Player. The area of focus is the local storage feature in Flash Player, which stores what are often mistakenly referred to as 'Flash cookies', said Emmy Huang, group product manager for Flash at Adobe, in a blog post.

Death to passwords

Death to passwords

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Passwords are like the keys to your house: you use them every day, but almost never really think of them until you lose them. Or someone else finds them. The recent hack of Gawker, which operates sites such as Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Deadspin, revealed some troubling news about the way many of us use passwords.

Snooping Represents A Growing Data Breach Threat

Snooping Represents A Growing Data Breach Threat

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Who's reading over your shoulder? With more employees now working in public places, for a break from the office or while on the go, 57% said they've had to stop their work because of privacy concerns, and 70% think they'd be more productive if no one else could view what they're working on.

Review: HTTPS Everywhere fends off Firesheep

Review: 'HTTPS Everywhere' fends off Firesheep

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The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, and then log in as you and do anything they want, as if they were you.

Another Hacker

Another Hacker

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A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him.

Cellphones being hacked!

Cellphones being hacked!

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These days, cellphone software, called X Spy, is popular. Once installed the owner can send it to other phones through messages. Then any information in the receivers' phones can be monitored.

SecTor 2010: Why security is the enemy of privacy

SecTor 2010: Why security is the enemy of privacy

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As we noted in last year's CSO article, " Six ways we gave up our privacy," people are increasingly -- and willingly -- throwing their privacy to the wind, thanks to an addiction to Google apps, GPS devices, the BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some security experts believe privacy is dead already.

The Link Between Recent Privacy Breaches

The Link Between Recent Privacy 'Breaches'

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Facebook has been the subject of intense scrutiny over privacy concerns...again. Or, is it still? Facebook is not alone, however, as Twitter and Android have also been recent targets of privacy ire. Each of these privacy incidents has something else in common as well--they are a result of relationships with third-parties that users have approved.

Privacy? Run a background check on yourself

Privacy? Run a background check on yourself

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My company hired a new employee recently and as part of my responsibilities, I ran a basic background check for our new hire. If you've never seen a professional background check, you will most likely be shocked by the level of detail that can be gleaned from public records.

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