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Privacy: Concepts, Tools and Tips to protect your privacy
Generally speaking, privacy means freedom from interference or intrusion. And when we speak in terms of information, information privacy is your right to control the way your personal information is collected and used. Think about the numerous privacy policies you’ve had to agree to in order to download any apps, start using online services, etc.
Throughout the years, privacy has been looked at through different prisms. If you mention privacy to people these days, you’ll mostly hear about Facebook and related social media platforms collecting data about you, and the pesky advertisers who know exactly which ads to show you, giving you a sense of breached privacy. Data is the new oil, and a lot of today’s privacy expressly concerns “data privacy”.
Data privacy is focused on the use and governance of personal information, involving policies that regulate the ways in which users’ private information is stored and used. While it’s often considered a synonym for security, it really isn’t; security is more about protecting data, but that doesn’t ensure privacy.
As it’s a crucial part of cyberspace, “Privacy” has its own category on the SecurityTrails blog. Here you’ll find posts that examine the topic of cyber espionage (truly the modern cloak-and-dagger genre), some of the best private search engines available to ensure your privacy while browsing the web, top DNS servers for improving online privacy, and much more.
Subfinder: A Practical Subdomain Exploration Tool
In one of our previous posts about information gathering, we covered the basics on how to get the right intel information about any organization, and that of course includes DNS intelligence.
Cyber Espionage: Cloak-and-Dagger in Cyberspace
Spies and the world of espionage have been around since the beginning of time. Information has always been power; even our predecessors knew it.
Random and Mysterious - Quantum Security Series - Part 2
Last week we scratched the surface of what quantum information and quantum security are, saw how current encryption algorithms could be broken and explored how to secure a classical SSH protocol tunnel to make it quantum attack resistant.
Top 5 Password Managers to Keep Your Accounts Safe
Most of us have a number of online accounts, and often fall into a rut of reusing the same password for some, if not all, of them. Convenience aside, having a strong password provides critical protection from cyber attacks—as one of the most common ways hackers break into systems is by merely guessing at passwords.
Ransomware Attacks: What They Are, Common Types and How to Protect Yourself
It’s no wonder ransomware is one of the most feared types of cybercrime out there. The idea of being denied access to your system or personal files and having them held under ransom by a malicious attacker is one of the worst scenarios most of us can imagine.
Mobile Security 101: Common Threats and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
Even with an estimated 5 billion people currently possessing a mobile device, half of them being smartphones, the use of mobile technology is still growing rapidly throughout the entire world.
The Social Engineering Toolkit
In the cybersecurity world, there are many types of attacks and network threats. And among the most popular are social engineering attacks.
Top 5 Talks from the 36th Chaos Communication Congress
With topics ranging from security, hardware and science to ethics, art and culture, the 36th Chaos Communication Congress delivered a lot of outstanding lectures, and we wanted to share our favorite five.
Open Port Checker Tools
We talk a lot about port scanning tools in this blog. That’s because they play a critical role in the cybersecurity industry.
Top 5 Private Search Engines
There are some things we keep doing, even when we know they’re bad for us. We all know we shouldn’t eat a lot of fast food or live lazy, couch-ridden lives; we all know how bad smoking is, and how miserable we feel the next day when we stay up all night…and yet, we still succumb to those bad habits we just can’t resist.