Cloak is a service for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad that keeps you safe from prying eyes on public wi-fi.

PGMail is an open source plugin for Apple Mail. It brings the functionality to sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt mails using the OpenPGP standard.
Please have a look at the getting started and FAQ section. It would be nice to tell Apple to support bundles for Mail.app officially.

there are quite a few ways to break into a Mac, but many of them are variations on the same thing, so we're going to highlight the two easiest ways—one with a Mac OS X installer CD and one without—and show you how to keep yourself protected.

The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" Some clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition." "Because you might do something wrong with my information." My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

At the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh this week, there was a conversation on social networking data. Someone made the point that there are several different types of data, and it would be useful to separate them. This is my taxonomy of social networking data.

Om de veiligheid en privacy van Firefox-gebruikers te vergroten, is er nu een verzameling van security plugins voor de opensource browser online verschenen. In juni van dit jaar lanceerde Mozilla een nieuw concept, genaamd de "Add-on Collection". Groepen add-ons die met een bepaald thema samenhangen en nu is daar ook de "Full Security Suite" bijgekomen. Vooralsnog bestaat de verzameling uit vier plugins, te weten, NoScript, BetterPrivacy, Adblock Plus en Web of Trust (WOT)

More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not. What’s even sneakier? Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being “killed,”

Computing and communicating through the Web makes it virtually impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview; a lost or stolen laptop can expose personal photos or messages; or a legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating or just embarrassing details from the past.

Threat Level had no idea the iPhone was so dangerous. We’re gratified that Apple locked down this potential weapon of mass disruption before hackers could unleash cybarmageddon. This also explains why Apple rejected the official Google Voice App for the iPhone this week. We thought it was because Google Voice posed a threat to AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple. Now we know it threatened national security.

KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

A data protection specialist claims that users can gain control of their browsing history and have it protected by the UK’s Data Protection Act just by contacting companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft and telling them their identities.

While attitudes toward privacy can appear paradoxical, the seeming contradiction is really about something else: control. When people bare their bodies on Facebook or their souls in the digital confessional of Google’s search engine, they feel as if they are in charge. Not so, when the private embarrassments come to light unexpectedly. The subtle relationship between privacy and control has complicated things for marketers, too. Advertisers talk about having to move away from analog-era “push” tactics and embracing digital-age “pull” strategies, in which consumers are enticed into seeking information about a product or brand, rather than having ads foisted on them.

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month.

PwdHashAndroid provides a simple to use UI for generating PwdHashes on the android plattform.

Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it? BetterPrivacy is a Super-Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually undeletable LSO's (Flash-Cookies) or DOM Storage Objects. It blocks longterm tracking on Google, YouTube Ebay and many other domains.

The Cloud is looming large, offering us ways to store and share our data in ways that were never before possible. We can effortlessly share our documents and photos with our families and friends, while maintaining control over their spread using powerful granular privacy controls. But it's quickly becoming clear that the cloud isn't ready for us. Because the services we rely on are letting us down with a frequency that is simply unacceptable.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. They range from straightforward steps that offer a little protection to more complicated measures that offer near-complete safety. While we strongly urge users to follow all six tips, a lesser level of protection might be sufficient depending on your particular situation and willingness to accept risks to your privacy.

Waar gaat het om? De Tweede Kamer heeft ingestemd met een aanpassing op de Energiewet waardoor straks iedereen verplicht is een zogenaamde slimme energiemeter te laten installeren. Deze energiemeter registreert op detailniveau (per kwartier!) uw verbruik, al deze gegevens worden dan verzonden naar uw energiemaatschappij en lekker lang opgeslagen zonder dat u er veel aan kunt doen. Tevens is het aftappen of het manipuleren van de slimme meters door derden niet al te moeilijk. Kortom, inbreuk op de privacy nummertje zoveel is aan de lijst toegevoegd.

Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?

Sinds 1 januari van dit jaar zijn huisartsen verplicht om voor de vergoeding van bepaalde medicijnen een verklaring met informatie over de patiënt in te vullen. Volgens huisarts Cost Budde uit Wijhe is dit een schending van het beroepsgeheim. Hij wil dan ook dat zijn patiënten hem machtigen voordat hij zaken als medicijngebruik doorspeelt. Budde is bang dat door het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier het beroepsgeheim nog verder in het geding zal komen.

Flash is niet alleen de "tyfus" van het internet, het vormt ook een serieuze bedreiging voor de privacy van internetgebruikers, zo hebben onderzoekers ontdekt. De populaire browser plugin slaat sporen van browser sessies op en maakt die voor websites toegankelijk, waardoor de werking van een "pornoknop" wordt ondermijnd. Onderzoekster Katherine McKinley onderzocht hoe goed Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome en Internet Explorer de sporen van hun gebruikers kunnen wissen en wat voor informatie plugins zoals Flash en Google Gears achterlaten.

Google released a browser security handbook for Web developers that details the key security features of the main Web browsers. Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, the document provides a comprehensive comparison of security features of the commonly used browsers; IE (version 6 and 7), Firefox (version 2 and 3), Safari, Opera, Chrome and the lesser known Android embedded browser.

Collective intelligence could make it possible for insurance companies, for example, to use behavioral data to covertly identify people suffering from a particular disease and deny them insurance coverage. Similarly, the government or law enforcement agencies could identify members of a protest group by tracking social networks revealed by the new technology. “There are so many uses for this technology — from marketing to war fighting — that I can’t imagine it not pervading our lives in just the next few years,” says Steve Steinberg, a computer scientist who works for an investment firm in New York.

The Apple Customer Privacy Policy says nothing about Safari sending any information to places other than the Web sites you’re visiting—but as of Safari 3.2, it does exactly that…If the URL of a page you want to visit matches the hash prefix of a known malicious page, Safari 3.2 appears to send that prefix to Google and ask for the entire 256-byte hash to make sure that this really is a malicious page (and also to verify that the page hasn’t been removed from Google’s lists since Safari’s last list update).

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer. CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive.

As the only integrated solution for encryption and backup, Knox 1.6 makes securing your files easier than ever. Create as many encrypted vaults as you want, each with separate passwords. Then schedule automatic backups.

Hide Folders is a freeware program for Mac OS X dedicated to protect documents and folders. With a click, conceals files and folders with all their contents.

A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

An intrepid user at the Ubuntu Forums has detailed the installation and setup of BlueProximity, a free Linux app that turns a Bluetooth phone into a proximity-based security device for your computer. Yes, that's exactly how it sounds: Your laptop locks itself down when you step a certain distance away, and opens again once you're in range.

Glubble Family Edition for Firefox allows your child to freely discover the best of the web you choose with your family circle online.

Chrome incorporates many of the sandboxing techniques developed by GreenBorder to protect its users. It is no longer possible for the modules that parse HTML and run Javascript to compromise the entire system. Google Chrome’s design is also reminiscent of the OP Browser (available here), which locks down browser components to prevent system-wide exploitation.

Brian Krebs on Computer Security

Have you ever forgotten your Excel workbook or sheet password? Here you can download a FREE Excel add-in that removes/cracks sheet and workbook password protection in Excel®.

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

After years of refusing to install extensions in my browsers or proxies on my machine, I have, for the past few months, started to work seriously on blocking connections to ad servers. The reason? The increasing number of security issues linked to these a

Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog

The Glubble Add-on for Firefox allows your child to freely discover the best of the web you choose with your family.*

RFID Blocking Wallet

Imagine a device that sits inline in a major ISP's network and can throttle P2P traffic at differing levels depending on the time of day, allows one user access only to e-mail and the Web while allowing a higher-paying user to use VoIP and BitTorrent, pro

A primer on making your Ubuntu Linux pc even more secure.

Ask most Linux users and they say that spyware is not an issue with Linux. For the most part that’s true as most spyware comes in the form of installed applications. Tracking cookies, however, still apply to Linux

Relakks offers you not only to surf anonymously, but also to use clients and applications anonymously on the internet.

LogMeIn Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application. In other words Hamachi is a program that allows you to arrange multiple computers into their own secure network just as if they were connected by a physical network cabl

Sxipper is a free plug-in for Firefox that lets you log into any website with a single click. Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and the personal data you share every day over the web. Sxipper logs you in securely

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed the following search privacy tips. They range from straightforward steps that offer a little protection to more complicated measures that offer near-complete safety. While we strongly urge users to follow a