Repository of Hardening Guides. Contribute to ernw/hardening development by creating an account on GitHub.

It turns out Apple CEO Tim Cook is pretty much vindicated when he argued that the government can't keep a backdoor safe.

More than 800,000 usernames and email addresses were taken, but most of the passwords aren't readable or easily crackable. The company later confirmed.

1) So, call me a masochist if you will, every so often I bomb a testbed PC with so-called adware/junkware applications. Install 'em all.

Scary good scam mail
- email by real person
- content credible
- link looks like attachment
- landingpage looks real https://t.co/SnyORrH1Rh

In a new level of dumb, Germany and France are demanding strong encryption for all citizens at the same time as they demand this strong encryption to be breakable. They also demand messaging providers of end-to-end encryption to provide police … Continue reading

Today, we’re updating WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to test ways for people to communicate with businesses in the months ahead. The updated documents also reflect that we’ve joined Facebook and that we've recently rolled out many new features, like end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp Calling, and messaging tools like WhatsApp for web and desktop. You can read the full documents here. We’re notifying everyone on the latest supported versions of our app about these updates, and you’ll be asked to tap ‘Agree’ to accept the updated terms. People use our app every day to keep in touch with the friends and loved ones who matter to them, and this isn't changing.

In this article we take a look at some tricks that target Google Chrome users to dupe them with the infamous tech support scam pop ups. In particular, we examine the fake address bar and alert dialogs which people have come to trust and yet can be deceiving.

Apple has patched its mobile operating system after investigators found flaws that were exploited to spy on dissidents and journalists.

This document describes the security content of iOS 9.3.5.