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The Appthority® App Report
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- Category: security
- Published on Friday, 05 April 2013 19:56
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The Appthority® App Report for February 2013 provides an overview of the security risks behind 100
free iOS and Android apps. Appthority examined the differences between the Android and iOS app
ecosystems; compared app behaviors across five popular app categories (business, education,
entertainment, finance, games); and looked at the developers behind these apps.
Report Highlights
- The vast majority of free apps send and receive data to outside parties without encryption.
- 96% of total apps share data with advertising networks and/or analytics companies.
- 79% of the top 50 free iOS and Android apps are associated with risky behaviors or privacy
issues. Overall, iOS apps exhibited more risky behaviors than Android apps. - Entertainment apps were the worst offenders out of the top five categories, with the highest number of apps that track for location and share data with advertising networks and/or analytics companies.
- While 14% of iOS apps had access to a user’s calendar, none of the Android apps had similar access.
- More than half of the total apps track for location by accessing the device GPS or using other location tracking methods.
- More than 80% of apps across categories come from different unique, individual developers.
Read more Here (PDF 288kb) source Appthority
CryptoParty Handbook v1.1 has been released
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- Category: security
- Published on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 20:38
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CryptoParty is a grassroots global endeavor to introduce the basics of practical cryptography such as the Tor anonymity network, key signing parties, True Crypt, and virtual private networks to the general public.
The first draft of the 442-page CryptoParty Handbook (the hard copy of which is available at cost), was pulled together in three days using the book sprint approach, and was released 2012-10-04 under a CC-BY-SA license; it remains under constant revision.
The CryptoParty Handbook v1.1 has been released and you download or edit here
Why Privacy Matters
Privacy is a fundamental human right. It is recognized in many countries to be as central to individual human dignity and social values as Freedom of Association and Freedom of Speech. Simply put, privacy is the border where we draw a line between how far a society can intrude into our personal lives.
How to Secure Your Windows Computer and Protect Your Privacy
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- Category: security
- Published on Thursday, 01 May 2008 00:00
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Anybody using internet should really read this article. While targeted at windows users, most of the
rules also apply to users of Linux and mac.
"Security consultant Howard Fosdick has contributed the latest entry in the
2008 OSNews Article Contest: a highly detailed examination of security and privacy on the
Windows platform, and how to use free
software tools and a little knowledge to protect your privacy online.
Do you know that --
- Windows secretly records all the web sites you've ever visited?
- After you delete your Outlook emails and empty the Waste Basket, someone could still
read your email?- After you delete a file and empty the Recycle Bin, the file still exists?
- Your computer might run software that spies on you?
- Your computer might be a bot , a slave computer waiting to perform tasks assigned
by a remote master?- The web sites you visit might be able to compile a complete dossier of your online activities?
- Microsoft Word and Excel documents contain secret keys that uniquely identify you? They also
collect statistics telling anyone how long you spent working on them and when. "
Virtualizes a Linux server on the fly with RSYNC
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- Category: security
- Published on Sunday, 17 August 2008 00:00
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 | You'll need a lot of patience...Since there is no VMWARE Converter for Linux... My objective is to virtualizes my Internet server running SUSE in a VMWARE to ease the migration to a more powerful and up to date server.
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I am using RSYNC since:
- I have no access to the machine, So I can't stop the server and make a binary images of the disk as the server is in a STRATO data center in Germany (Berlin)
- I don't like operations down time.
I HAVE TO virtualize my server because:
- The operating system SuSE is too old and is no more security patches available.
- I want to have a local reference in VMWARE of my Internet server.
This tutorial can be see as an add-on of this one : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9942 (very good by the way) I just complete the missing steps or document some issues I've encountered..
Secure, Safe, Fast Linux Hosting
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- Category: security
- Published on Saturday, 01 March 2008 19:00
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I know that Secure, Safe, Fast Linux Hosting sound silly as nothing can be fast and secure at the same time, but I've compiled a list of things that are worth doing if you are maintaining your own server. This list is clearly targeted for people running an open source stack made of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Linux.
This list is an ongoing work, thta is why it has also a version number in it (v1.0). As soon as I will learn new tricks, the list will be updated.
By clicking read more, You'll be able to go through the checklist, or maybe you'll prefer the mindmap version HERE
