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AWS Adds New Protections Against SSRF, Other Web App Attacks

The new AWS IMDSv2 security feature mitigates common attacks that take advantage of SSRF, open WAFs, and open layer 3 firewalls.

AWS Security, Cloud

Decipher Podcast: Ron Deibert

Ron Deibert of Citizen Lab joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his team's work on investigating surveillance vendors and helping victims.

Podcast

Americans Don’t See Benefits of Data Collection

Eight out of every 10 adults in the United States worry they cannot control how information about them is being used, found a new study from the Pew Research Center. A equal number of them don't think the rewards of personalized and customized services are worth it.

Privacy

US Government Has Stopped Warrantless Collection of Phone Data

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that the government has stopped collecting phone location data using Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

Privacy, Government

New Variant of ZombieLoad Bypasses Intel Mitigations

Security researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria discovered the fixes for the ZombieLoad speculative execution attacks on Intel processors were not completely effective. The researchers have disclosed a new variant that works on Intel processors that have hardware mitigations in place.

Hardware, Intel