New Timing Attack Could De-Anonymize Google Users

A new timing attack has been disclosed that could de-anonymize Google users under particular conditions. Google acknowledged the issue to researcher Andrew Cantino, the vice president of engineering at Mavenlink, but told him it would not address the issue because the risk is low. “I agree that...

Attackers Compromise TOR Network to De-Anonymize Users of Hidden Services

A critical vulnerability in Tor — an encrypted anonymizing network considered to be one of the most privacy oriented service, which is used by online users in order to hide their activities from law enforcement, government censors and others — was probably being used to de-anonymize the identity ...

Secret: ClientId gives away platform (iOS/Android) from which a secret was posted.

In /stream API request each post contains a property named "ClientId". I suppose it's generated by client applications when user is posting a secret. It seems that iOS and Android applications generate this string quite differently: xLfLHR six random characters — iOS...

How To Remove File Metadata

How To Remove File Metadata For those of you who want to remove file metadata from any shared data, you can use existing document or image editor software which typically have built-in metadata editing capability. In this tutorial, we will introduce a standalone metadata cleaner tool which is...