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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.

Information and Guides
Media
- Books
- Podcasts
- Videos
Security Tools & Services
- Online Tools
- Privacy-Respecting Software, moved to here
- Security Hardware, moved to here
Research
- Data and API's
- Academic
Organisations
- Foundations
- Government Organisations
More Lists
- Mega Guides
- Other GitHub Security Lists

How-To Guides

Threat Protection
- Protect against SIM-swap scam: via wired
- How to spot a phishing attack: via EFF
- Protection from Identity Theft: via Restore Privacy
- Harden your MacOS Security: via @drduh on GitHub
Netowkring
- How to enable DNS over HTTPS: via geekwire
- How to resolve DNS leak issue: via DNSLeakTest
- Protect against WebRTC Leaks: via Restore Privacy
- ISP and DNS privacy tips: via bluz71
- Complete guide to configureing Firefox for Privacy + Speed: via 12bytes
- Beginners guide on getting started with Tor: via ProPrivacy
- Beginners guide to I2P: via The Tin Hat
- How to Use a VPN and Tor together: via ProPrivacy
Communication
- Email Self-Defense, Configure your mail client securly, from scratch - via FSF.org
- How to avoid Phishing Attacks: via EFF
- How to use PGP: Via EFF - Windows, MacOS and Linux
Devices
- Layers of Personal Tech Security: via The Wire Cutter
- Improving security on iPhone: via lifehacker
- Guide to scrubbing Windows OSs from forensic investigation: by u/moschles, via Reddit
- A curated list of Windows Domain Hardening techniques: by @PaulSec, via: GitHub
- How to Delete your Data Securely: Via EFF - Windows, MacOS and Linux
Software
- How to use Vera Crypt: via howtogeek
- How to use KeePassXC: via EFF
Physical Security
- Hiding from Physical Surveillance: via Snallabolaget
- Guide to opting-out of public data listings and marketing lists: via World Privacy Forum
Enterprise
- A basic checklist to harden GDPR compliancy: via GDPR Checklist
Reference Info
- A direcory of websites, apps and services supporting 2FA: via TwoFactorAuth.org
- A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services: via JustDeleteMe.xyz
- Product reviews from a privacy perspective, by Mozilla: via Privacy Not Included
- Surveillance Catalogue - A database secret of government and military surveillance equipment, leaked in the Snowden files: via The Intercept
  - See also: The source code for these projects, on WikiLeaks Vault7 and Vault8, and the accompanying press release

Articles

Encryption
- Overview of projects working on next-generation secure email: via OpenTechFund
Surveillance
- Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy: via NY Times
- Windows data sending: via The Hacker News
- Is your Anti-Virus spying on you: via Restore Privacy
- What does your car know about you?: via Washington Post
- Turns Out Police Stingray Spy Tools Can Indeed Record Calls: via Wired
- UK Police Accessing Private Phone Data Without Warrant: via Restore Privacy
- Rage Against Data Dominance: via Privacy International
Breaches
- Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details Study Says: via NY Times
Threats
- 23 reasons not to reveal your DNA: via Internet Health Report
- Security of Third-Party Keyboard Apps on Mobile Devices: via Lenny Zelster

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
The Tin Hat - Tutorials and Articles for Online Privacy
FOSS Bytes- Cyber Security - News about the latest exploits and hacks
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
Security Planner - Great advise for beginners
My Shaddow - Resources and guides, to help you take controll of your data

Books

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick: Kevin tells his story of being the world's most wanted hacker

Podcasts

Darknet Diaries by Jack Rhysider: Stories from the dark sides of the internet. Listen on Stitcher
- Listen on Stitcher, iTunes, Spotify, PocketCasts
CYBER by Motherboard: News and analysis about the latest cyber threats
- Listen on Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify, PocketCasts
The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show by Michael Bazzell: Comprehensive guides on Privacy and OSINT
- Listen on Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify, PocketCasts
Smashing Security by Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault: Casual, opinionated and humerous chat about current cybersecurity news
- Listen on Stitcher, iTunes, Spotify, PocketCasts

More Security Podcasts on player.fm

Videos

General
- 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
TED Talks
- How Online Trackers Track You, and What To Do About It by Luke Crouch
- Why you should switch off your home WiFi by Bram Bonné
- Why Privacy Matters, by Glenn Greenwald
- Fighting viruses, defending the net, by Mikko Hypponen
- The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare, by Chris Domas
- State Sanctioned Hacking - The Elephant in the Room - Historic, economic and demographic overview of the growing threat to the U.S. from Chinese cyber invasions, by Frank Heidt
- How the IoT is Making Cybercrime Investigation Easier - How our data is changing the nature of "evidence" in digital forensics, by Jonathan Rajewski
- Online Privacy Doesn't Exist - The unexpected dangers our digital breadcrumbs can lead to, by Denelle Dixon
- Data is the new gold, who are the new thieves? - Introduction and demonstration of the power of data, by Tijmen Schep
Conferences
- DEF CON 27 - Collection of talks from DEF CON 2019, Vegas
- RSA Conference - Collection of security talks from the RSA conferences
- Administraitor.video - A regularly updated collection of new and interesting security confrence talks
Misc
- Through a PRISM, Darkly - Everything we know about NSA spying, by Kurt Opsahl

Online Tools

Check and Test
- εxodus - Check which trackers any app on the Play Store has
- Have I been Pwned and Dehashed - Check if your details have been compromised
- Redirect Detective - Check where a suspicious URL redirects to
Utilities
- ExifRemove - Remove Meta/ EXIF data online
- Secure Password Check - Fun little tool, to demonstrate how long it could take to crack a password
- 33Mail or Anonaddy or SimpleLogin Protect your email address, by auto-generating unique permeant aliases for each account, so all emails land in your primary inbox
- Deseat Me - Clean up your online presence
Anti-Tracking Analysis
- Panopticlick - Check if, and how your browser is tracking you
- Browser Leaks - Check which information is being leaked by your browser
- DNSLeakTest - Check for and fix a DNS leak
- IP Leak - IP Leak test
- Am I Unique? - If your fingerprint is unique, then websites can track you
- Qualys SSL Client Test - Check the SSL/TLS capabilities of your browser
Phishing, Hacking and Abuse
- VirusTotal - Analyse a suspicious web resource for malware
- ScamAdviser - Check if a website is a scam, before buying from it
- Abuse IP DB - Report an IP address for abuse, spam or attacks, and check the status of any IP
- Phish Tank - Check if a link is a known phishing URL, Submit a phishing URL, browse recent phishing URLs
- Is It Hacked? - Check if a website or page appears to be hacked, hijacked or generally suspicious
IP Tools
- I Know What You Download - Shows torrents that have been downloaded or distributed from your IP address
- Hetrix Tools - Blacklist Check - Check if your Domain or IP appears on any common blacklists
Public Domain and Website Scanning Tools
- URL Scan - Scan and analyse websites, shows IP, DNS, domain and host data, as well as info about resources and requests
- Security Trails - Shows all DNS records, historical DNS data and sub domains
- crt.sh - Shows current and previous SSL/ TLS certificates for a given domain, has advanced search option
- Virus Total - Scans any URL, web asset or file for malware
- DomainTools WhoIs - Who Is Lookup. Check who registered a domain name, and find contact details
- Pentest Tools Vulnerability Scanner - Light scan searches for client and server-side vulnerabilities and missing HTTP security headers
- Qualys SSL Server Test - Perform a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public Internet
- Abuse IP DB - Check if an IP or domain has been reported for abuse, or file a report
- RIPEstat - Detailed analysis of IP Addresses (Routing, DNS, Abuse History, Activity etc)
- Multirbl - Complete IP check for sending Mailservers
- IPVoid - Full suit of Domain, IP, and DNS tools for Tracing, Lookup, Checking and Pinging
Net Neutrality
- Blocked by ORG - Check if your website is blocked by certain ISPs
- Data Rights Finder - Find, understand and use information from privacy policies
Anonymous Services - The following sites host a veriety of anonymous online services
- NixNet
- Snopyta
- Disroot

Privacy-Respecting Software

This section has moved to here. Complete list of privacy-respecting software and services

Security Hardware

This section has moved to here. Products, gadgets and DIY projects to help improve security

Data, API's and Visualisations

Information Tables
- That One Privacy Site - Detailed VPN Comparison Data
- Hosts to block: someonewhocares/ hosts and StevenBlack/ hosts
- File Signature Table - An up-to-date list of magic numbers, used to identify / verify the content of a file to ensure it has not been tampered with
- Nirsoft - Country IP - List of IP address ranges per country
Databases
- Exploit Database - A database or Current software vulnerabilities
- Internet Census Data - Includes data on address space allocation, traffic, DNS, service enumeration, internet outages and other internet topology data
- Exodus - Trackers in Android Apps
- URLScan - Service scanning for malicious domains
- Dehashed - Data Breaches and Credentials
- VirusTotal - Detailed virus scans of software
- Abuse IP DB - Database of IPs reported for abuse
- SnusBase - Long standing database hosting breached data
- OpenPhish - A feed of current phishing endpoints
- Default Password - Database of default passwords for various devices by manufacturer and model
- HashToolkit - Database of 'cracked' hashes
- SecLists - Starter list of leaked databases, passwords, usernames etc (Great for programming)
- Qualys SSL Pulse - A continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL / TLS support over time across 150,000 SSL- and TLS-enabled websites, based on Alexa’s list of the most popular sites in the world
Fun with Live Data 🌠
- Internet
  - Tor Flow - Real-time data flow between Tor nodes
  - Internet Census - 24-hour world map of average utilization of IPv4 addresses
    - ICMP ping requests were sent out via the Carna botnet. Read how this was done on the Official Site or download similar datasets
  - Map of Mobile Internet - Shows world data coverage, according to Twitter data
  - DomainTools Statistics - Domain registration Numbers and Charts
  - Insecam - A directory and feed of insecure or public live webcams
  - IKnow - Live data showing what content is being downloaded + distributed via torrents
  - Semantic Internet Map - Shows how different websites link together
- Unrelated, but Awesome Data
  - BGP Stream - Shows all current outages
  - Submarine Cable Map - An up-to-date map of major global internet cables (see also he.net globe and this map)
  - FlightRadar24 - World-wide map of live aircraft positions
  - Airport WiFi Map - Shows WiFi networks and their passwords for airports around the world
  - Stuff in Space - Shows objects orbiting Earth
  - Wiggle - Worlds largest WiFi Map showing personal hotspot statistics geographically
- Threat Maps - Real-time hack attempts (malware, phishing, exploit and spam), visualised geographically
  - Checkpoint
  - FortiGuard
  - Fire Eye
  - Kaspersky
  - BitDefender
  - ESET
  - Threat But Map
  - Looking Glass Cyber Map
  - Digital Attack Map
  - Kaspersky LogBook - Historic Threat Time Line

Academic

Journals
- Rethinking information privacy‐security: Does it really matter? By Waseem Afzal: via Wiley
- Crypto Paper: Privacy, Security, and Anonymity For Every Internet User, by Crypto Seb: via GitHub
- Challenges in assessing privacy impact, Tales from the Front Line: via Wiley
- A privacy‐preserving multifactor authentication system: via Wiley
- Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?: via scss.tcd.ie
Implementations and Standards
- The GNU Privacy Guard
- OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
- WireGuard
- Nym - Next Generation of Privacy infrastructure

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
Electronic Privacy Information Center
American Civil Liberties Union
Free Software Foundation
Courage Foundation - Supports those who risk life / liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record
Fight for the Future - Fighting for a future where technology liberates
Public Citizen - Standing up to corporate power and hold the government accountable

Government Organisations

Citizen/ Small business Advice and Infrormation
- UK National Cyber Security Center
- US Cybersecurity - NIST
- Stay Safe Online - US government-backed project, aimed to inform and educate individuals and small businesses about basic digital security
Cybercrime
- Consumer Fraud Reporting - US's Catalogue of online scams currently circulating, and a means to report cases
- Action Fraud - UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime
Fact Checkling
- Full Fact - UK independent fact checking charity, campaigning to expose bad information, and the harm it does
CERT - Your local jurisdiction will likely have a Computer emergency response team (historically known as CERT). Who is in charge of handline handles domestic and international computer security incidents.
- Australia - auscert.org.au
- Austria - cert.at
- Bangladesh - cirt.gov.bd
- Bolivia - cgii.gob.bo
- Brazil - cert.br
- Canada - cyber.gc.ca
- China - cert.org.cn
- Columbia - colcert.gov.co
- Croatia - carnet.hr
- Czech Republic - csirt.cz
- Denmark - cert.dk
- Ecuador - ecucert.gob.ec
- Egypt - egcert.eg
- Estonia - ria.ee / CERT-EE
- Finland - kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi
- France - cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- Germany - cert-bund.de
- Ghana - nca-cert.org.gh
- Hong Kong - hkcert.org
- Iceland - cert.is
- India - CERT-IN
- Indonesia - idsirtii.or.id
- Iran - cert.ir
- Italy - cert-pa.it
- Japan - JPCERT
- Kyrgyzstan - cert.gov.kg
- Luxembourg - circl.lu
- Macau - mocert.org
- Malaysia - mycert.org.my
- Morocco - educert.ma
- Netherlands - ncsc.nl
- New Zealand - cert.govt.nz
- Nigeria - cert.gov.ng
- Norway - norcert
- Pakistan - pakcert.org
- Papua New Guinea - pngcert.org.pg
- Philippines - cspcert.ph
- Poland - cert.pl
- Portugal - cncs.gov.pt/certpt
- Qatar - qcert.org
- Rep of Ireland - ncsc.gov.ie
- Romania - cert.ro
- Russia - gov-cert.ru / cert.ru
- Singapore - csa.gov.sg/singcert
- Slovenia - sk-cert.sk
- South Korea - krcert.or.kr
- Spain - incibe.es
- Sri Lanka - cert.gov.lk
- Sweden - cert.se
- Switzerland - govcert.ch
- Taiwan - twcert.org.tw
- Thailand - thaicert.or.th
- Tonga cert.to
- Ukraine - cert.gov.ua
- UAE - tra.gov.ae/aecert
- United Kingdom - ncsc.gov.uk
- United States - us-cert.gov

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