Each month, we publish a review that covers essential activities of the last 30 days. This month, we discuss “Dependency confusion” attacks, malware for Apple’s M1, “Dynamic State Partitioning” in Firefox 86, and more. Read more »

FIRST provides the “Common Vulnerability Scoring System," which many people and organizations use to rate the severity of security vulnerabilities. However, some people misunderstand the scope of CVSS. In this article, we debunk three myths regarding CVSS. Read more »

For more than three years, we offered OpenPGP keys so you could encrypt your e-mails before sending them to us. However, the number of encrypted e-mails is meager. In 2019, about 1.5% of e-mails sent by readers were encrypted. Last year, the number went down to less than 1%. More… Read more »

Each month, we publish a review that covers essential activities of the last 30 days. This month, we discuss current TLS recommendations, new features in Firefox and Chromium, and the war of instant messengers. Read more »

Several days ago, the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre released its updated “IT Security Guidelines for Transport Layer Security (TLS).” The current version 2.1 covers many aspects of TLS and further considerations, like post-quantum security, certificate management, and random number generators. A notable change is the downgrade of TLS 1.2,… Read more »

In the final monthly review of 2020, we talk about recent news, our activities in 2020, and the state of our website. Read more »

Firefox 85 introduces “Network Partitioning,” which is part of the “client-side storage partitioning.” Modern web browsers heavily rely on caching content to offer a fast browsing experience. However, shady websites can misuse caching mechanisms to identify and track users. The “client-side storage partitioning” (aka “cache partitioning”) isolates the cache belonging… Read more »

When you can e-mail us This year, we received an overwhelming number of e-mails, including questions about our content, requests to update or write new content, and some general suggestions. However, we also got a considerable number of e-mails in the style of “I want to buy your domain name,”… Read more »

In our tutorial for beginners, we set up KeePassXC for daily use. KeePassXC is a famous open-source password manager, helping you to combat weak passwords and password reuse. In this tutorial for advanced users, we set up two YubiKeys to further increase your KeePassXC database’s overall security. Read more »

The “Fediverse” is a loose aggregation of federated servers that mainly speak the ActivityPub protocol. One of the most famous services in the Fediverse is “Mastodon.” We joined the Fediverse in the early days of Mastodon to share short-lived information that didn’t fit into a separate article on our website.… Read more »