personal-security-checklist/4_Privacy_And_Security_Links.md

**Personal Cyber Security: Useful Links**<br>
See also: [Personal Security Checklist](https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/blob/master/README.md) 🔐

# Awesome Privacy & Securty [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re) [![PRs Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square)](http://makeapullrequest.com) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/LICENSE-CC_BY_4.0-00a2ff?&style=flat-square)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
> A curated list of useful tools and resources online, that help protect your privacy and keep you safe.

- **Main Content**
  - [Resources](#resources)
  - [Foundations](#foundations)
  - [How-To Guides](#how-to-guides-and-specific-articles)
- **Media**
  - [Blogs](#blogs)
  - [Books](#books)
  - [Podcasts](#podcasts)
  - [Videos](#videos)
- **Research**
  - [Data and API's](#data-and-apis)
  - [Academic Journals](#academic-journals)
  - [Implementations and Standards](#implementations-and-standards)
- **Tools and Services**
  - [Online Tools](#online-tools)
  - [Anonymous Services](#anonymous-services)
- **More Lists**
  - [Mega Guides](#mega-guides)
  - [Other GitHub Security Lists](#other-github-security-lists)


## Resources
- Tips for safer online communications: https://ssd.eff.org
- Tools to protect agains mass surveillance: https://www.privacytools.io
- Secure app alternatives: https://prism-break.org/en/all
- Guides for securing mobile, web and home tech https://bit.ly/2ptl4Wm
- Complete guide to secure email: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org
- Check which websites support 2FA: https://twofactorauth.org
- Great advise for beginners: https://securityplanner.org


## Foundations
- Contract for the Web: https://contractfortheweb.org
- Electronic Frountier Foundation, Defending digital privacy + more: https://www.eff.org
- OWASP Foundation: https://www.owasp.org
- The Privacy Project, by the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html
- Freedom House, Fighting for freedom on the net: https://freedomhouse.org
- Privacy International: https://privacyinternational.org
- Open Tech Fund: https://www.opentech.fund
- Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press
- Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org
- LEAP Encryption Access Project: https://leap.se
- The Guardian Project: https://guardianproject.info
- Foundation for Applied Privacy: https://applied-privacy.net
- Safe + Secure (advise for journalists and film makers): https://safeandsecure.film
- Citizen Lab: https://citizenlab.ca



## How-To Guides and Specific Articles
- Complete guide to configureing Firefox for Privacy + Speed: https://12bytes.org/7750
- Overview of projects working on next-generation secure email: https://github.com/OpenTechFund/secure-email
- ISP and DNS privacy tips: https://bluz71.github.io/2018/06/20/digital-privacy-tips.html
- Layers of Personal Tech Security: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/internet-security-layers/
- Improving security on iPhone: https://lifehacker.com/the-privacy-enthusiasts-guide-to-using-an-iphone-1792386831
- Protect against SIM-swap scam: https://www.wired.com/story/sim-swap-attack-defend-phone/
- Is your Anti-Virus spying on you: https://restoreprivacy.com/antivirus-privacy/
- How to use Vera Crypt: https://www.howtogeek.com/108501/the-how-to-geek-guide-to-getting-started-with-truecrypt
- How to enable DNS over HTTPS: https://geekwire.co.uk/privacy-and-security-focused-dns-resolver
- How to resolve DNS leak issue: https://www.dnsleaktest.com/how-to-fix-a-dns-leak.html 
- Windows data sending: https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/microsoft-windows10-privacy.html
- How to spot a phishing attack: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-avoid-phishing-attacks


## Blogs
- Spread Privacy, Raising the standard of trust online, by DuckDuckGo: https://spreadprivacy.com/
- Restore Privacy, tools and guides about privacy and security: https://restoreprivacy.com/
- That One Privacy Site, impartial comparisons and discussions: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ 
- The Hated One, Privacy and security videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjr2bPAyPV7t35MvcgT3W8Q
- 12Bytes, Opinion Articles about Tech, Privacy and more: https://12bytes.org/articles/tech
- BringBackPrivacy, easy-reading, sharable privacy articles: https://bringingprivacyback.com/
- Heimdal, Cyber Security Blog: https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/
- Tech Crunch, Cyber Security 101: https://techcrunch.com/tag/cybersecurity-101/
- OONI, Internet freedom and analysis on blocked sites: https://ooni.org/post/
- Cyber Security Discusions on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/
- Pixel Privacy: https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/


## Books
- Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden): https://amzn.to/30wxxXi
- Sandworm (by  Andy Greenberg): https://amzn.to/2FVByeJ


## Podcasts
- Darknet Diaries (by Jack Rhysider): https://darknetdiaries.com


## Videos
- Why you should switch you should switch off your home WiFi: https://youtu.be/2GpNhYy2l08
- You are being watched, by The New York Times: https://youtu.be/c8jDsg-M6qM
- The Power of Privacy, by The Guardian: https://youtu.be/KGX-c5BJNFk
- Why Privacy matters, even if you have nothing to hide: https://youtu.be/Hjspu7QV7O0


## Data and API's
- A database or Current software vulnerabilities, Exploit Database: https://www.exploit-db.com/
- Detailed VPN Comparison Data: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison
- Trackers in Android Apps, Exodus: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/trackers/stats/
- Hosts to block: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and  https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- Service scanning for malisious domains, URLScan: https://urlscan.io/
- Data Breaches and Credentials: https://www.dehashed.com/breach


## Academic Journals
- Crypto Paper: https://github.com/cryptoseb/cryptopaper/
- WireGuard White Paper: https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf


## Implementations and Standards
- The GNU Privacy Guard: https://www.gnupg.org/
- OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation: https://openpgpjs.org/
- Nym- Next Generation of Privacy infrastructure: https://as93.link/nym-blog-post



## Government Cyber Security Organisations
- UK National Cyber Security Center: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
- US Cybersecurity: https://www.nist.gov/topics/cybersecurity


## Anonymous Services
- NixNet: https://nixnet.services
- Snopyta: https://snopyta.org
- Disroot: https://disroot.org



## Online Tools
- Check if your details have been compromised: https://haveibeenpwned.com and https://www.dehashed.com/
- Check where a suspicious URL redirects to, Redirect Detective: https://redirectdetective.com/
- Check which trackers any app on the Play Store has, εxodus: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
- Analyse a suspicious web resource for malware, VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/
- Check if a website is a scam, before buying from it, ScamAdviser: https://www.scamadviser.com/
- Clean up your online presence: https://www.deseat.me/
- Avoid revealing your real email address, by auto-generating aliases for each accound, 33Mail: http://33mail.com/Dg0gkEA
- Check if your browser is checking you, Panopticlick: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- A suit of online tools, with online freedom in mind, Disroot: https://disroot.org/
- Check if your website is blocked by certain ISPs, Blocked by ORG: https://www.blocked.org.uk/
- Find, understand and use information from privacy policies, Data Rights Finder: https://www.datarightsfinder.org/
- Check which information is being leaked by your browser, Browser Leaks: https://browserleaks.com/
- Check for, and fix a DNS leak: https://www.dnsleaktest.com/
- Shows your IP address, and other associated details, IP Leak: https://ipleak.net
- Remove Meta/ EXIF data online, ExifRemove: https://www.exifremove.com/


## Mega Guides
- https://fried.com/privacy
- https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides
- https://proprivacy.com/guides/the-ultimate-privacy-guide
- https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/cyber-security-mega-guide
- https://www.wired.com/2017/12/digital-security-guide
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3devm/motherboard-guide-to-not-getting-hacked-online-safety-guide

## Other GitHub Security Lists
- privacy-respecting by @nikitavoloboev: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting
- awesome-privacy by @KevinColemanInc: https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy
- Security_list by @zbetcheckin: https://github.com/zbetcheckin/Security_list


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