**Personal Cyber Security: Useful Links**
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. ## 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/en/ ## 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/ ## 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/ ## How-To Guides & 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/ ## 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/ ## Installable Tools - Block invisible trackers, Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger - Ensure HTTPS, HTTPSEverywhere: eff.org/https-everywhere - Block ads that track you: Adblock Plus: https://adblockplus.org/ - Allows plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice, ScriptSafe: https://github.com/andryou/scriptsafe - Client-side encryption for cloud storage, Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/ - Isolate Android apps for privacy, Island: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_GB - Stay behind a secure connection with a VPN, Comparioson of VPN https://www.comparisonvpn.com/ - Get a password manager, to generate super-strong unique passwords and securly store autofill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers ## Mobile Apps - A sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your: [Island](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_GB) - Tor connection on phone: [Orbot](https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/) - App firewall for Android. Shows detailed permissions, network activity per app, and allows for easy monitoring and restrictions: [NetGaurd](https://www.netguard.me/) - Monitor trackers and permssions each of your installed apps has: [Exodus](https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/page/what/#android-app) - Easily enable CloudFlares secure DNS, and DNS over HTTPS with 1-tap: [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/) -Detect network intruders. identify connected devices and monitor home WiFi: [Fing App](https://www.fing.com/products/fing-app) - Grant temporary app permissions: [Bouncer](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.permission) - Learn about Encryption & Cryptography: [Crypto](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kokoschka.michael.crypto) - PiHole dashboard and control panel for your phone (requires an installation of PiHole): [FlutterHole](https://github.com/sterrenburg/flutterhole) -Mobile privacy browser, that erases history, cookies and session data when closed: [Firefox Focus](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.focus) - Encrypts data before it is uploaded to cloud storage: [Cryptomator](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cryptomator) - Simple, fast encrypted notepad: [Safe Notes](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.protectedtext.android) ## Books - Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden): https://amzn.to/30wxxXi - Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg): https://amzn.to/2FVByeJ ## 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 ## Papers and Academic Journals 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/ ## 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 ## Government Cyber Security Organisations - UK National Cyber Security Center: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ - US Cybersecurity: National Institue of Standards and Technology https://www.nist.gov/topics/cybersecurity ## 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 ## 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 --- *Contributions are welcome, and appreciated - to propose an edit [open an issue](https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/issues/new/choose), or [open a PR](https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/pull/new/master). 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