Privacy – Security

Epic says its Game Store is not spying on you

March 15, 2019 by Kyle Orland

Kyle Orland

Enlarge / Despite what you may have read, Epic says this is not spyware. This week, certain corners of the gaming Internet have been abuzz with a bit of self-described "amateur analysis" suggesting some "pretty sketchy," spyware-like activity on the part of the Epic Game Store and its launcher software.…

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…

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…

My Social Media Detox, part 4: Linkedin account

February 20, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Last episode of my “Social Media Detox”: today we rid of Linkedin! Why should I delete LinkedIn? As in the last post, I borrow this post by Richard Stallman, for topics concerning privacy and ethics: – LinkedIn is trying to have people imprisoned for scraping its site. – LinkedIn requires…

My Social Media Detox, part 3: Twitter account

February 6, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Today is Twitter’s shift! Let’s see how getting him out of your lives! Why should I delete Twitter? Privacy Twitter’s privacy policy allow a pervasive user tracking, according this report by EFF: Contrary to the inviting “Sounds good” button to accept the new policy and get to tweeting, the changes…

My Social Media Detox, part 2: Instagram account

January 23, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Second step of my “social media detox”: today we destroy the Instagram account! Main reasons are the same exposed for Facebook account. I’d like to add a brief quote from Richard Stallman: Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. https://stallman.org/facebook.html How do…

My Social Media Detox, part 1: Facebook account

January 9, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Right after new year’s, I’ve decided to start a process of “social media detox”: one of my 2019 goals is to find more time left to read, study and watch movies. Of course social networks are main candidates to get excluded from my daily routine, without excluding privacy implication! So,…

“Town of Salem” leak: more than 2 million password hashes are already cracked

January 6, 2019 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

…and are available to download. Personal details of 7.6 million users of BlankMediaGames game “Town of Salem” has been stolen by an unknown attacker. Town of Salem is a browser-based game that challenges players on their ability to convincingly lie as well as detect when other players are lying. The…

Bay Area: Join us 1/9 to talk about personal data security in 2019

January 3, 2019 by Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

Enlarge / Askhan Soltani has worked with the FTC and as an independent researcher, exploring data privacy issues. Recently, he testified about Facebook's privacy policies before the US and UK governments. (credit: Ashkan Soltani) The Cambridge Analytica scandal. Data breaches at hotels, banks, rideshare companies, and hospitals. Facial recognition. DNA…

Easily setup a Onion Service using Docker

November 5, 2018 by Andrea Fortuna

Andrea Fortuna

Some time ago I’ve written a post about Tor Onion Services (formerly known as hidden services), and how to host them on a spare android smartphone. Tor makes possible for users to hide their locations while offering various kinds of services, such as web publishing or an instant messaging server.…

Meet Helm, the startup taking on Gmail with a server that runs in your home

October 17, 2018 by Dan Goodin

Dan Goodin

Enlarge (credit: Helm) There’s no doubt that Gmail has changed the way we consume email. It’s free, it gives most of us all the storage we’ll ever need, and it does a better job than most in weeding out spam and malware. But there’s a cost to all of this.…

Google backtracks—a bit—on controversial Chrome sign-in feature

September 27, 2018 by Peter Bright

Peter Bright

Enlarge (credit: Google Chrome) Google will partially revert a controversial change made in Chrome 69 that unified signing in to Google's online properties and Chrome itself and which further preserved Google's cookies even when users chose to clear all cookies. Chrome 70, due in mid-October, will retain the unified signing…

Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass

November 9, 2017 by Nick Sullivan

Nick Sullivan

Enabling anonymous access to the web with privacy-preserving cryptography Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo. Privacy Pass leverages an idea from cryptography — zero-knowledge proofs — to let users prove their identity across multiple sites…

Azure Confidential Computing will keep data secret, even from Microsoft

September 14, 2017 by Peter Bright

Peter Bright

Enlarge / The Trusted Execution Environment means that even if the application and operating system are compromised, the green code and data can't be accessed. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft announced Thursday a new feature coming to its Azure cloud platform named "Confidential Compute." The feature will allow applications running on Azure to…

Advancing Privacy Protection with the GDPR

August 21, 2017 by Caroline Greer

Caroline Greer

A game-changer The road towards implementation of the new European GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) has been a long one, even though public awareness of its impact, especially outside of Europe, is only now really starting to take hold. This game-changing piece of EU legislation will require companies to…

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