Heads up: dont google “Are Bengal Cats legal in Australia?”

#CoSoSec #Privacy

Cybersecurity company SOPHOS issued an urgent warning on its website, urging people not to type six words into their search engines.

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2024/11/06/bengal-cat-lovers-in-australia-get-psspsspssd-in-google-driven-gootloader-campaign/

Also #Android & #iOS a new browser app

With the Startpage app, private search meets private browsing. Just like the Startpage search privacy promise you’re familiar with, the app NEVER stores or shares your searches or browsing history. Plus, unlike other big tech companies, we never use your data to train AI models.

#Privacy

https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/featured-article/the-startpage-app-has-launched

#Privacy #CoSoSec

the current ecosystem of E2EE cloud storage is largely broken.

Several major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage services contain cryptographic flaws that could lead to loss of confidentiality, file tampering, file injection and more, researchers from ETH Zurich said in a paper published this month.

(PDF)

https://share.counter.social/s/87d462

Meanwhile: #Privacy #CoSoSec

Today TheRecord_Media released an article regarding Ford's new patent: targeted advertisements by actively monitoring and listening to passengers conversations.

It sounds bad, but reading the article it's actually x100 worse.

More information:

https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

#Microsoft #Privacy

Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects - The report, titled "Employees as Risks" - released today by the Vienna-based non-profit - explores software from Microsoft and formerly from Forcepoint – specifically SIEM (security information and event management) and UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics) applications

(Download report PDF here)

Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/publications/securityriskprofiling

New name, new logo, new website: We’ve completed our rebranding journey for Tuta, showcasing how easy you can be private and secure online.

#Privacy

Welcome to our new website: "Turn on Privacy"

https://tuta.com/blog/launch-new-website

The FBI can’t get everything it wants from a dead person’s phone, so it has decided to start revving up its anti-encryption engine

#Privacy #Tech

Chris Wray is telling Congress that being able to break into a phone simply isn’t enough. All encryption must go, not just that protecting the device itself.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/31/fbi-back-to-complaining-about-encryption-making-it-difficult-to-scrape-all-data-from-a-dead-persons-phone/

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I mean, Cellebrite

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Google has been criticized for its decision to abandon plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, with privacy experts accusing the firm of prioritizing advertising revenue over user privacy.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-abandon-cookie-phase-out/

FYI: you can toggle the use of third party cookies off 😝 so if they are on it's on the user right? 😂

#Privacy #Google

#Google #Privacy #CoSoSec

Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

In a paper [PDF]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,"

#Browsers #Privacy

Over time, even the best browsers can become bloated with feature creep, going from sleek and speedy to slow and sluggish. If you’re sick of this kind of drag, give Min a try. It doesn’t get simpler than this one.

https://minbrowser.org

A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

https://github.com/minbrowser/min

i switched to another keyboard app away from GBoard >> OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.

#TipsAndTricks #Privacy

https://github.com/dslul/openboard

Also that keyboard doesn't rely on any background data being sent or received like most other keyboards do

Download via play store

/nosanitize

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarevalencia.openboard.inputmethod.latin

Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state

Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden to update MPs on cyber-attacks by Beijing, some of whom may also have been targets

#Privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/details-of-millions-of-uk-voters-accessed-by-chinese-state-ministers-will-say

Meanwhile, reforms of UK spying laws continue to make their way through parliament, with the investigatory powers (amendment) bill also in the Commons on Monday.

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112148561592627345

#Privacy #DNS

Ad-blocking browser extensions can only block ads and trackers in your web browser. however, they can only protect you within the browser itself

Unfortunately, many ads and trackers operate outside of the browser — in your operating system, installed programs, and mobile apps.

Why You Should Block Ads with a DNS Service

#TipsAndTricks

Blocking ads at a network-level has never been easier.

https://blog.controld.com/why-you-should-block-ads-with-a-dns-service/