Data Safety and Information Security

What are browser fingerprints? How accurate are they at tracking us? Do they work on smartphones at all?

A Winnipeg man says a little-known program allowed his credit card company to share his credit card number with a merchant before he even had the card himself.

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This blog post introduces an analysis of Digital Identities and their various architectural models. The paper focuses on the impact of identities on the Web and users, particularly on privacy, security, and human rights, the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact and how collaboration among various stakeholders can mitigate these threats.

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Your work laptop should be for work only, experts warn

Decoupling the authorization module can bring about a host of benefits. But what are the complexities of this approach? And how can they be addressed? In this guide, you can familiarize yourself with the important technical aspects of decoupling authorization.

A guide to the most common access control terms. Learn how to integrate MAC and DAC and RBAC, and how the rise of FGA can help your application access control.

The volume of critical coverage of China's proposed digital ID system in Western media stands in stark contrast to the near-total absence of coverage, critical or otherwise, of digital ID systems being developed by Western governments.

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Internet users leave many traces on websites and online services. Measures such as firewalls, VPN connections and browser privacy modes are in place to ensure a certain level of data protection. However, a newly discovered security loophole allows bypassing all of these protective measures.

Our latest research has found that clickable links on websites can often be redirected to malicious destinations. We call these "hijackable hyperlinks" and have found them by the millions across the whole of the web, including on trusted websites.

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Learn the differences between Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and Discretionary Access Control (DAC) and how to leverage both for application authorization.

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This blog post takes a look at the years where eBPF was one of the kernel subsystems that grabbed the attention of a lot of security researchers. We will tell the story of how we discovered CVE-2023-2163, what our root-cause analysis process looked like, and what we did to ultimately fix the issue.

List of user agents categorized by device and platform. Utility to parse user agents and get information like operative system device

Generative AI presents new security problems for runtimes of Kubernetes applications. Operant, a runtime application platform provider, offers a non-eBPF solution.

The sandboxed nature of eBPF programs ensures that the impact of security issues is contained, reducing the risk of widespread system compromise.

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The cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity, a decade ago, wrote a parable called "A Story About Jessica" and posted it to their (now-deleted) Tumblr blog. I found it moving and insightful. The consultancy Superbloom pointed to it … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

VPN mesh networks allow nearby nodes to rapidly communicate peer-to-peer.

Hyperscan, a high-performance, open source regex matching library from Intel, supports PCRE syntax, simultaneous matching of regex groups, and streaming operations. Suitable for DPI,IDS, IPS, and firewalls, and has been deployed in network security solutions worldwide. Hyperscan is integrated with DPDK, where its performance can reach wire speed and at larger packets sizes.

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