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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.
- Main Content
- Media
- Research
- Tools and Services
- More Lists
Getting Started Guides
- EFF SSD - Tips for safer online communications
- PrivacyTools.io - Tools to protect against mass surveillance
- PrismBreak - Secure app alternatives
- The VERGE guide to privacy - Guides for securing mobile, web and home tech
- Email Self-Defense - Complete guide to secure email
- TwoFactorAuth.org - Check which websites support 2FA
- Security Planner - Great advise for beginners
- My Shaddow - Resources and guides, to help you take controll of your data
Foundations
- Contract for the Web
- Electronic Frountier Foundation - Defending digital privacy + more
- OWASP Foundation
- Freedom House - Fighting for freedom on the net
- Privacy International
- Open Tech Fund
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Open Rights Group
- LEAP Encryption Access Project
- The Guardian Project
- Foundation for Applied Privacy
- Safe + Secure - advise for journalists and film makers
- Citizen Lab
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
- Restore Privacy - Tools and guides about privacy and security
- That One Privacy Site - impartial comparisons and discussions
- The Hated One - Privacy and security videos
- 12Bytes - Opinion Articles about Tech, Privacy and more
- BringBackPrivacy - Easy-reading, sharable privacy articles
- Heimdal - Cyber Security Blog
- Tech Crunch - Cyber Security 101
- OONI, Internet freedom and analysis on blocked sites
- Pixel Privacy - Online privacy guides
- The Privacy Project - Articles and reporting on Privacy, by the NYT
Books
- Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden)
- Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg)
Podcasts
- Darknet Diaries (by Jack Rhysider): Stories from the dark sides of the internet. Listen on Stitcher
- CYBER (by Motherboard, Vice): News and analysis about the latest cyber threats. Listen on Stitcher
Videos
- Why you should switch off your home WiFi by Bram Bonné
- You are being watched by The New York Times
- The Power of Privacy by The Guardian
- Why Privacy matters, even if you have nothing to hide by The Hated One
Data and API's
- Exploit Database - A database or Current software vulnerabilities
- That One Privacy Site - Detailed VPN Comparison Data
- Exodus - Trackers in Android Apps
- URLScan - Service scanning for malisious domains
- Dehashed - Data Breaches and Credentials
- VirusTotal - Detailed virus scans of software
- Hosts to block: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Academic Journals
- Crypto Paper by Crypto Seb- Privacy, Security, and Anonymity For Every Internet User
Implementations and Standards
- The GNU Privacy Guard
- OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
- WireGuard
- Nym - Next Generation of Privacy infrastructure
Government Cyber Security Organisations
Anonymous Services
Online Tools
- Have I been Pwned and Dehashed - Check if your details have been compromised
- Redirect Detective - Check where a suspicious URL redirects to
- εxodus - Check which trackers any app on the Play Store has
- VirusTotal - Analyse a suspicious web resource for malware
- ScamAdviser - Check if a website is a scam, before buying from it
- Deseat Me - Clean up your online presence
- 33Mail or Anonaddy Avoid revealing your real email address, by auto-generating aliases for each accound
- Panopticlick - Check if, and how your browser is tracking you
- Disroot - A suit of online tools, with online freedom in mind
- Blocked by ORG - Check if your website is blocked by certain ISPs
- Data Rights Finder - Find, understand and use information from privacy policies
- Browser Leaks - Check which information is being leaked by your browser
- DNSLeakTest - Check for and fix a DNS leak
- IP Leak - Shows your IP address, and other associated details
- ExifRemove - Remove Meta/ EXIF data online
Mega Guides
- by Fried
- by ivpn
- by ProPrivacy
- by Heimdal Security
- by Wired
- by Vice
More Awesome GitHub Lists
- privacy-respecting by @nikitavoloboev
- awesome-privacy by @KevinColemanInc
- Security_list by @zbetcheckin
- awesome-security by @sbilly
- awesome-sec-talks by @PaulSec
- awesome-crypto-papers by @pFarb
- awesome-threat-intelligence by @hslatman
- awesome-incident-response by @meirwah
- awesome-anti-forensic by @remiflavien1
- awesome-malware-analysis by @rshipp
- awesome-honeypots by @paralax
- awesome-hacking by @carpedm20
- awesome-pentest by @enaqx
- awesome-ctf by @apsdehal
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