Running the final Privacy Fundamentals class for the year, tomorrow.
Who is this for? This class is designed for you, the non-techie, also for activists, advocates, privacy enthusiasts, OSINT beginners concerned about their digital footprint. A good refresh for seasoned professionals too.
What's included: - Understanding & evaluating digital risk - Account security - Device security & safety - Safer online searches - Secure Communications - Online abuse & protecting your data Class will be recorded.
¡Let's Encrypt cumple hoy 10 años! Let's Encrypt es una autoridad de certificación gratuita, automatizada y abierta que ofrece el grupo sin fines de lucro Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Muchas gracias a todos los que participaron en hacer que HTTPS esté disponible para todos de forma gratuita.
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today! Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free
- Nutzt kein #PGP / #GPG - Nutzt kein #XMPP + OMEMO - Nutzt kein #Matrix (im Sinne: verlasst euch nicht auf die Verschlüsselung) - E-Mails verschlüsseln ist sinnlos
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Hmmm... the C-Lion1 fibre optic cable that connects Helsinki in Finland & Rostock in Germany has been cut.... with suspicions falling (immediately) on Russia... The night before a similar link between Sweden & Lithuania was also cut.
So on one hand this looks like a programme of communicative disruption... but one might wonder whether its a sign of the start of something else (my old IR training leads me to pose the Q. at least).
The problem isn't so much that #Proton is evil, it's mostly that it's widely #misunderstood and seen as a #magic solution. So let's repeat: Proton is a fairly basic #mail service that won't #protect your political, journalistic, or whistleblowing activities per se. You cannot avoid understanding the whole #security chain and setting up tailored security practices. A good start is → https://ssd.eff.org/
Sometime ago somebody shared a screenshot of a service with a cookie message along the lines of: "We take your privacy seriously" while there also was a list of 600+ vendors with whom data would be shared. Does anyone have this screenshot & the source? I think this was by Microsoft MS365?
Pregnancy Tracking #App ‘What to Expect’ Refuses to Fix Issue that Allows Full Account Takeover
What to Expect is a popular pregnancy tracking app available for #ios and #android.
An exposed API endpoint handling password reset requests for the app does not require authentication or enforce rate limits and is vulnerable to brute force attacks.
i'm really excited to share the work my team at @trailofbits has been doing for the last year: Sigstore-based attestations are now live and generally available on PyPI!
if you're already using Trusted Publishing with the canonical pypi-publish action, you don't need to change anything: the action will generate and upload an attestation on your behalf.