A greater portion of the world’s work, organizing, and care-giving is moving onto digital platforms and tools that facilitate connection and productivity: video conferencing, messaging apps, healthcare and educational platforms, and more. It’s important to be aware of the ways… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Security Education’
Phishing in the Time of COVID-19: How to Recognize Malicious Coronavirus Phishing Scams
For malicious people, preying on collective fear and misinformation is nothing new. Mentioning national headlines can lend a veneer of credibility to scams. We’ve seen this tactic time and again, so it’s no surprise that COVID-19 themed social media and… Read More ›
Victory: Android 11 Rolls out Improved Certificate Warnings
Now that HTTPS encrypts over 80% of web connections, powerful actors are targeting root certificate stores to compromise our security and surveil us. In the past year alone, that’s included a “market research” company secretly owned by Facebook and the… Read More ›
Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think
If you follow security on the Internet, you may have seen articles warning you to “beware of public Wi-Fi networks” in cafes, airports, hotels, and other public places. But now, due to the widespread deployment of HTTPS encryption on most… Read More ›
Surveillance Self-Defense: Year in Review 2019
Here at EFF, we maintain a repository of self-help resources on circumventing surveillance across a variety of different platforms, devices, and threat models. We call it Surveillance Self-Defense, or SSD for short. SSD covers myriad topics, and is broken up… Read More ›
Virtual(ly) Private Network: NordVPN’s Breach and the Limitations of VPNs
UPDATE (11/8/2019): We have clarified that the NordVPN user credentials impacted were not in result of this breach. The popular VPN provider, NordVPN, recently announced a server breach at a third-party data center. NordVPN reassured users that its key services… Read More ›
Companies Can Still Do More to Protect Privacy in Brazil: Internet Lab Releases Fourth "Who Defends Your Data" Report
Internet Lab, the Brazilian independent research center, has published their fourth annual report of “Quem Defende Seus Dados?” (“Who defends your data?”), comparing policies of their local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and how they treat users’ data after receiving government… Read More ›
The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers
It’s hard to talk about the vulnerabilities in cellular technology without increasing the amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. There is already much uncertainty around cell-site simulators (CSS, aka Stingrays), their capabilities, and how widely they are used. Partly this… Read More ›
A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads
Last week, Pew released the results of a survey investigating how users understand Facebook’s data collection practices and how they react when shown what the platform thinks it knows about them. The upshot is that 74% of users weren’t aware… Read More ›
Detecting Ghosts By Reverse Engineering: Who Ya Gonna Call?
This article was first published on Lawfare. The most recent purportedly serious proposal by a Western government to force technology companies to provide access to the content of encrypted communications comes from Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson of the Government Communications Headquarters,… Read More ›