personal-security-checklist/4_Privacy_And_Security_Links.md

Personal Cyber Security: Useful Links
See also: Personal Security Checklist 🔐

Awesome Privacy & Securty

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/

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/

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
• Tor connection on phone: Orbot
• App firewall for Android. Shows detailed permissions, network activity per app, and allows for easy monitoring and restrictions: NetGaurd
• Monitor trackers and permssions each of your installed apps has: Exodus
• Easily enable CloudFlares secure DNS, and DNS over HTTPS with 1-tap: 1.1.1.1 -Detect network intruders. identify connected devices and monitor home WiFi: Fing App
• Grant temporary app permissions: Bouncer
• Learn about Encryption & Cryptography: Crypto
• PiHole dashboard and control panel for your phone (requires an installation of PiHole): FlutterHole -Mobile privacy browser, that erases history, cookies and session data when closed: Firefox Focus
• Encrypts data before it is uploaded to cloud storage: Cryptomator
• Simple, fast encrypted notepad: Safe Notes

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

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