February 2019 – Security

Android Security Improvement update: Helping developers harden their apps, one thwarted vulnerability at a time

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by Eugene Liderman

Eugene Liderman

Posted by Patrick Mutchler and Meghan Kelly, Android Security & Privacy Team[Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog]Helping Android app developers build secure apps, free of known vulnerabilities, means helping the overall ecosystem thrive. This is why we launched the Application Security Improvement Program five years ago, and why we're still…

Microsoft’s latest security service uses human intelligence, not artificial

February 28, 2019 by Peter Bright

Peter Bright

Enlarge / Microsoft security experts monitoring the world, looking for hackers. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has announced two new cloud services to help administrators detect and manage threats to their systems. The first, Azure Sentinel, is very much in line with other cloud services: it's dependent on machine learning to sift…

Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

February 28, 2019 by BrianKrebs

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A 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted felon and his father and urged the latter to take a more active interest in his…

Digital Evidence Across Borders and Engagement with Non-U.S. Authorities

February 28, 2019 by Caroline Greer

Caroline Greer

Since we first started reporting in 2013, our transparency report has focused on requests from U.S. law enforcement. Previous versions of the report noted that, as a U.S. company, we ask non-U.S. law enforcement agencies to obtain formal U.S. legal process before providing customer data. As more countries pass laws…

Crypto Mining Service Coinhive to Call it Quits

February 27, 2019 by BrianKrebs

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Roughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive[.]com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday, Coinhive announced plans to pull the plug on the project early next month. A message posted to…

How to Secure Your Identity & Become Anonymous Online in 2019

February 27, 2019 by distortion

distortion

Your social security number, credit card information, and medical history can fall into the wrong hands if you're not careful about how and where you share your data online. If you really care about your data, there are tools and techniques you can utilize to protect yourself from cyberstalkers, advertisers,…

Out of the Clouds and into the weeds: Cloudflare’s approach to abuse in new products

February 27, 2019 by Justin Paine

Justin Paine

In a blogpost yesterday, we addressed the principles we rely upon when faced with numerous and various requests to address the content of websites that use our services. We believe the building blocks that we provide for other people to share and access content online should be provided in a…

Mozilla Firefox tweaks for enhanced privacy

February 27, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Mozilla Firefox allows a lot of configurations, the heaven for tweakers! Today i’d like to share my personal configurations, focused on privacy. This settings can be configured from about:config page, but i’ve also developed a small user.js file that can be installed on your Firefox profile. Configure from about:config Enter…

Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

February 27, 2019 by BrianKrebs

BrianKrebs

A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted…

WordCamp Phoenix Recap

February 26, 2019 by Kathy Zant

Kathy Zant

The first WordCamp for 2019 took place this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona with nearly 700 attendees, and we were delighted to be involved. In addition to our gold-level sponsorship, Wordfence Threat Analyst Mikey Veenstra spoke on Friday, and our Client Partner Kathy Zant worked for months on the organizing…

Google Play Protect in 2018: New updates to keep Android users secure

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 by Eugene Liderman

Eugene Liderman

Posted by Rahul Mishra and Tom Watkins, Android Security & Privacy Team [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog]In 2018, Google Play Protect made Android devices running Google Play some of the most secure smartphones available, scanning over 50 billion apps everyday for harmful behaviour. Android devices can genuinely improve people's…

Unpacking the Stack and Addressing Complaints about Content

February 26, 2019 by Alissa Starzak

Alissa Starzak

Although we are focused on protecting and optimizing the operation of the Internet, Cloudflare is sometimes the target of complaints or criticism about the content of a very small percentage of the more than thirteen million websites that use our service. Our termination of services to the Daily Stormer website…

Cloudflare Signs European Commission Declaration on Gender Balanced Company Culture

February 26, 2019 by Caroline Greer

Caroline Greer

Last week Cloudflare attended a roundtable meeting in Brussels convened by the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, with all signatories of the Tech Leaders’ Declaration on Gender Balanced Company Culture. Cloudflare joined this European Commission initiative late last year and, along with other companies, we are…

Logpush: the Easy Way to Get Your Logs to Your Cloud Storage

February 25, 2019 by Filipp Nisenzoun

Filipp Nisenzoun

Introducing LogpushToday, we’re excited to announce a new way to get your logs: Logpush, a tool for uploading your logs to your cloud storage provider, such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. It’s now available in Early Access for Enterprise domains.We first explained Cloudflare’s logging functionality almost six years…

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