personal-security-checklist/4_Privacy_And_Security_Links.md

Personal Cyber Security: Useful Links
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Awesome Privacy & Securty

A curated list of useful tools and resources online, that help protect your privacy and keep you safe.

• Main Content
  • Resources
  • Foundations
  • How-To Guides
• Media
  • Blogs
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
• Research
  • Data and API's
  • Academic Journals
  • Implementations and Standards
• Tools and Services
  • Online Tools
  • Anonymous Services
• More Lists
  • Mega Guides
  • Other GitHub Security 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

• UK National Cyber Security Center
• US Cybersecurity - NIST

Anonymous Services

• NixNet
• Snopyta
• Disroot

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

Unrelated Awesome Lists

• awesome by @sindresorhus
• lists by @jnv

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