Apple Will Offer Onion Routing for iCloud/Safari Users

At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced something called “iCloud Private Relay.” That’s basically its private version of onion routing, which is what Tor does.

Privacy Relay is built into both the forthcoming iOS and MacOS versions, but it will only work if you’re an iCloud Plus subscriber and you have it enabled from within your iCloud settings.

Once it’s enabled and you open Safari to browse, Private Relay splits up two pieces of information that — when delivered to websites together as normal — could quickly identify you. Those are your IP address (who and exactly where you are) and your DNS request (the address of the website you want, in numeric form)…

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Authentic8 and LifeRaft: Simplifying workflow to get to ground truth faster

Integration between our Silo Web Isolation Platform and LifeRaft’s security intelligence solution, Navigator, provides the efficiency, security and anonymity to tackle threats
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Cross-browser tracking vulnerability compromises user anonymity

By Habiba Rashid
The vulnerability affects top browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and even Tor browser.
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Vulnerability in popular browsers could be used to track, profile users online

A vulnerability affecting desktop versions of four popular web browsers could be exploited by advertisers, malicious actors, and other third parties to track and profile users online even if they switch browsers, use incognito mode or a VPN, researcher… Continue reading Vulnerability in popular browsers could be used to track, profile users online