Data Safety and Information Security

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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The BotScout.com bot database helps you prevent bots from registering on your forums or using your web forms.

We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.

Analyze, protect, and optimize your content for the hidden ecosystem of AI assistants, scrapers, and other bots swarming across the internet

Hundreds of sites have put old Anthropic scrapers on their blocklist, while leaving a new one unblocked.

What if the Harris campaign - or the White House - wanted to join the fediverse properly? They'd have to admin their own Mastodon (or similar) instance. I'm convinced there's a need for a VIP hosted instance for brands, government, professional organizations, and anyone who cares about branding, brand safety, analytics, tight links to other branded web properties (including WordPress integration), and professional moderation. #fediverse

Looking for a VPN solution for your devices? Explore our comparison of WireGuard vs OpenVPN to determine which one fits your personal needs.

Would your rather observe an eclipse through a pair of new Ray-Bans, or a used Shade 12 welding helmet? Undoubtably the Aviators are more fashionable, but the permanent retinal damage sucks. Fetch the trusty welding helmet. We’ve made a number of security choices when building Canary that have held us in pretty good stead. These…

Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its…

Below is a screenshot of Vizceral, a tool that was built by a former teammate of mine at Netflix. It provides a visualization of the interactions between the various microservices. Vizceral uses mo…

In the fast-evolving world of cybersecurity, the recent CrowdStrike outage served as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities that can arise…

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One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training. In my personal view, option 1 is almost strictly better. Option 2 is never as simple as "only allow actual human beings access" because determining who's a human is hard. In practice, it means putting a barrier in front of the website that makes it harder for everyone to access it: gathering personal data, CAPTCHAs, paywalls, etc. This is not to say a website owner shouldn't implement, say, DDoS protection (I do). It's simply to remind you that "only allow humans to access" is just not an achievable goal. Any attempt at limiting bot access will inevitably allow some bots through and prevent some humans from accessing the site, and it's about deciding where you want to set the cutoff. I fear that media outlets and other websites, in attempting to "protect" their material from AI scrapers, will go too far in the anti-human direction.