Can I trust Cloudflare’s Privacy Pass extension? Does it brings risks and side effects regarding privacy?

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The Privacy Pass extension implements the Privacy Pass protocol for
providing a private authentication mechanism during web browsing.
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15 major companies announce effort to tackle cybersecurity workforce recruitment issues

Fifteen major companies, including the Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, and PwC, announced Wednesday they are joining together to change their cybersecurity job descriptions and requirements to attract more talent to the 3 million cybersecurity job openings that are expected to be available over the next two years. Specifically, the companies — which are part of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group — are focused on nixing requirements that candidates have four-year bachelor’s degrees and gender-biased job descriptions. “A bachelors degree is actually not a good proxy for whether you have the talent,” Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber & Technology Program John Carlin told CyberScoop. “There’s plenty of talented people out there but we need to figure out better ways to identify them and train them.” The group, which also includes AIG, Cloudflare, the Cyber Threat Alliance, Duke Energy, IronNet, Johnson & Johnson, Northrop Grumman, Symantec, Unisys, and Verizon, came together over […]

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Cloudflare may have provided service to terrorists, drug traffickers in violation of U.S. sanctions

Internet services and cybersecurity provider Cloudflare has acknowledged it may have violated U.S. sanctions by doing business with terrorist groups and international drug traffickers, an admission that comes as the San Francisco company prepares to go public as soon as this week. Cloudflare voluntarily disclosed the possible economic and trade sanction violations to the U.S. Department of Treasury in its S-1 filing, amended to stipulate that Cloudflare technology was “used by, or for the benefit of, certain individuals or entities” named on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s list of Specially Designated Nationals, as the Wall Street Journal first reported. The filing does not name specific parties, saying only that the group includes “entities identified in OFAC’s counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics trafficking sanctions programs, or affiliated with governments currently subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions.” A small number of those entities also made payments to Cloudflare. The updated regulatory filing also notes […]

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Google to Experiment ‘DNS over HTTPS’ (DoH) Feature in Chrome 78

Immediately after Mozilla announced its plan to soon enable ‘DNS over HTTPS’ (DoH) by default for Firefox users in the United States, Google today says it is planning an experiment with the privacy-focused technology in its upcoming Chrome 78.

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