Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities
A vulnerability in Amazon's Ring doorbell cameras would have allowed a local attacker to gain access to a target's entire wireless network. A vulnerability in Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Pro…
Budget Linux Smartphone PinePhone
Do you remember when It’s FOSS first broke the story that Pine64 was working on a Linux-based smartphone running KDE Plasma (among other distributions) in 2017? It’s been some time…
SmartTV Connections over Tor
If your Internet Providers cannot tell where your traffic is going, what it is accessing, and where it originated then it is going to be very difficult for them to be anything other than neutral. Read on to find out how this is possible and how you can make it happen today.
iOS 13.2 tips: Check these security and privacy settings today
iPhones and iPads are, out of the box, quite robust and secure platforms. But with a few tweaks you can harden that security dramatically without adding too much burden to…
Let’s talk about Smart Phone Privacy
Smart Phones and Privacy might be considered an oxymoron - a contradiction in terms - and anyone who tells you otherwise is well... selling something. No surprise there but with…
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: ‘They’re not going away.’
The problem with how Intel designed speculative execution is that, while anticipating the next action for the CPU to take does indeed speed things up, it also exposes data along…
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
Guest post by Pierre Laperdrix In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy.…
How to create a vanity Tor .onion web address
Tor is a powerful, open source network that enables anonymous and non-trackable (or difficult to track) browsing of the internet. It's able to achieve this because of users running Tor…
Why people need the dark web, whether they want it or not
Never before has the real world been so interconnected with the cyber with an increasing amount of our everyday activity becoming digitised. However, what we say, what information we look…
Backdoors are a security vulnerability
Last month, US Attorney General William Barr resurrected a government appeal to technology companies: Provide law enforcement with an infallible, "secure" method to access, unscramble, and read encrypted data stored…
