BlogCovid-19 lockdowns are starting to lift, and people are already beginning to travel for work and family reasons. We’ve shared cybersecurity best practices for travel before, but this year, there are some pandemic-related considerations to add to the list.
Here, then, are 10 things to keep in mind if you’re going to be hitting the road in the coming months (starting with five “new normal” additions to the usual advice, and rounding things out with five always-relevant tips for secure travel).
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June 18, 2020 •
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SecurityThe Checklist will return next week with coverage of WWDC 2020. In the meantime, we’ll catch you up on the latest cybersecurity news — and share several Checklists from the archives that shed light on these stories.
June 18, 2020 •
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BlogIt’s high school graduation time again! COVID-19 has brought some big changes this year, with drive-thru graduations and Zoom commencement speeches taking the place of traditional ceremonies. But despite the differences, one thing is guaranteed to remain the same: The bad guys will be targeting new grads for fraud, scams, and identity theft.
If you know a member of the Class of 2020, here are three things you can do to help keep them safe.
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June 17, 2020 •
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BlogKaren Gullo is an analyst and senior media relations specialist for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She is an award-winning journalist who has written for both The Associated Press and Bloomberg News. Her writing has focused on the intersection of law, politics, and technology. In her current role, Gullo supports EFF’s mission of defending civil liberties and enhancing rights in the digital world.
If you would like to learn more about Karen and her work, you can follow her on Twitter or read her past articles and blog …
June 16, 2020 •
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SecurityThe Checklist is taking a short break as we gear up for WWDC 2020 — but we’ll be back with all new episodes very soon. To tide you over while you wait, we’re sharing several classic Checklists which provide essential background to the week’s news.
June 11, 2020 •
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BlogWe’ll answer some common questions we’ve heard about Tor — touching on issues of functionality, safety, and privacy.
June 10, 2020 •
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BlogA security flaw known as a “DNS leak” that can reveal all of your web activity to your ISP — even if you’re using a VPN!
June 9, 2020 •
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SecurityThis week’s Checklist is all about staying safe in an unsafe world.
June 4, 2020 •
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SecurityThis week, we sit down with a special guest to discuss the ins and outs of encryption — touching on everything from iPhone passcodes and brute-force attacks to political posturing and quantum computing!
May 28, 2020 •
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BlogJust as Apple released iOS 13.5 to the world, hackers at unc0ver announced that they had developed a jailbreak that would work on devices running iOS 11 all the way up to the brand new iOS 13.5.
In what follows, we’ll try to answer some common questions about the unc0ver jailbreak. Along the way, we’ll discuss the whys and whats of jailbreaking, and explain what it all means for average iOS users in terms of security and privacy.
What is unc0ver?
Unc0ver is a jailbreak tool for iOS devices. It can be loaded …
May 27, 2020 •
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SecurityThis week, we’ll bring you up to speed on Big Tech’s efforts to fight Covid-19.
May 22, 2020 •
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iOSApple has just released iOS 13.5, and the update brings several significant changes. In what follows, we’ll touch on the highlights — and tell you what they mean in terms of safety, security, and privacy.
Updated: Apple has now released full security notes for the iOS 13.5 update.
There were eight separate fixes to kernel vulnerabilities, which is significant: the kernel is the core of the operating system, and bugs there can lead to serious problems. Apple says that the kernel issues patched in this release could have led to arbitrary code …
May 21, 2020 •
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