Privacy – Security

Social media firms will be forced to unmask online trolls, says Australia

November 29, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

The Prime Minister of Australia has said his government will introduce legislation which will compel social media companies to "unmask anonymous online trolls," and allow victims to launch defamation proceedings. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Smashing Security podcast #253: Cybercrime unicorns, HVAC hacks, and NFT piracy – with Mikko Hyppönen

November 25, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

Heating systems are left vulnerable to attack in the high courts, cybercrime unicorns have become a reality (but what are they?), over 15 Terabytes of NFTs are made available for anyone to download ... and Carole reveals her Pick of the Year. All this and much more is discussed in…

Boffins say they can spot a hidden spy cam with just a smartphone

November 19, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

In good news for anyone who has ever stayed in an Airbnb property or has a creepy landlord, researchers say that they have developed a way that anyone could detect hidden spy cameras with just a modern smartphone. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Smashing Security podcast #252: Hotel hacks, workplace spies, and the FBI

November 18, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

Booking.com got hacked five years ago, and didn't tell its customers... but now we know who might have been behind it. Bossware rears its ugly head again in the workplace, spying on employees. And did you receive a warning email from the FBI? All this and much more is discussed…

Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

I received email from two people who told me that Microsoft Edge enabled synching without warning or consent, which means that Microsoft sucked up all of their bookmarks. Of course they can turn synching off, but it’s too late. Has this happened to anyone else, or was this user error…

Smashing Security podcast #251: PrawnHub, Tesla recall, and IoT luggage

November 11, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

Fishing fanatics find themselves in deep water, Teslas go haywire after an update, and is there actually some good news about IoT? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this…

How the FBI Gets Location Information

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.

Smashing Security podcast #248: Press F12 to hack

October 21, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

A journalist is threatened with prosecution after choosing to "View Source" on a public webpage, Amazon Ring owners might be in line for a hefty fine if their neighbours complain, and is the school lunch queue a good place for facial recognition? All this and much more is discussed in…

Recovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System

October 14, 2021 by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

New paper: “This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces. Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved stunning realism, fooling even human observers. Indeed, the popular tongue-in-cheek website http://thispersondoesnotexist.com, taunts users with GAN generated images that seem too real to believe. On the other hand, GANs…

Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance

October 13, 2021 by Talha Paracha

Talha Paracha

Web pages typically have a large number of embedded subresources (e.g., JavaScript, CSS, image files, ads, beacons) that are fetched by a browser on page loads. Requests for these subresources can prompt browsers to perform further DNS lookups, TCP connections, and TLS handshakes, which can have a significant impact on…

Handshake Encryption: Endgame (an ECH update)

October 12, 2021 by Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood

Privacy and security are fundamental to Cloudflare, and we believe in and champion the use of cryptography to help provide these fundamentals for customers, end-users, and the Internet at large. In the past, we helped specify, implement, and ship TLS 1.3, the latest version of the transport security protocol underlying…

The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

October 11, 2021 by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier

It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. To respect “privacy and human dignity,” MEPs said that EU lawmakers should pass a permanent ban on the automated recognition…

The Pandora Papers is the Panama Papers turned up to 11

October 4, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

It's bad news for billionaires, world leaders, politicians, celebrities, fraudsters and royal family members who wanted to keep their tax-dodging activities secret.

Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web

October 1, 2021 by Thibault Meunier

Thibault Meunier

By reading this, you are a participant of the web. It's amazing that we can write this blog and have it appear to you without operating a server or writing a line of code. In general, the web of today empowers us to participate more than we could at any…

Smashing Security podcast #245: The Julian Assange assassination plot, and IoT toilets

September 29, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

While Julian Assange was killing time in the Ecuador's embassy in London, the CIA were trying to dream up ways to kill him, and urine trouble if you put your trust in an IoT lavatory. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security"…

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