Data Safety and Information Security

Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look

There are a few vehicles on the road that are targeted often by car thieves, whether that’s because they have valuable parts, the OEM security is easily bypassed, or even because it’s a…

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Barrion automates vulnerability detection, helping tech teams secure web apps with comprehensive security scans, real-time alerts, and actionable insights.

It's a dangerous world, learn to protect and educate yourself.

The smart home zombies are coming.

Eighty percent of breaches stem from broken identity security systems. Learn how frameworks like IPSIE can help fix this.

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such…

Open source tools like Linux Malware Detect and Chkrootkit can alert you to unwanted visitors on your server.

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for…

When malicious hackers exploit vulnerabilities in firewalls, VPNs and routers, it’s not the vendors that get hit — it’s their customers.

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit. A platform for model evaluators & learners to professionalize algorithmic auditing and real-time AI impact assessments.

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Browser-based cryptography has struggled with a longstanding chicken-and-egg problem that predates many features of the modern web, and while some of those features have reduced the problem’s severity, the issue remains: What is the basis for trusting the code that performs browser-based encryption?

I've become very interested in the topic of authorization over the last year and plan to write about it more. I hope you'll follow along.

I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.

For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.

Software composition analysis (SCA) is a process undertaken to identify and track application code dependencies and also track security and compliance Google has open sourced OSV-SCALIBR (Software Composition Analysis LIBRary). With open source vulnerability (OSV) issues always in the spotlight, this could be a welcome development.