News Standard Notes is joining Proton Proton, the company behind the popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail, announced that they will be joining forces with standard notes, a secure and open-source note-taking application. This move represents Frankline 10 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
News Beware of Telegram's Dangerous Peer-to-Peer SMS Relay: Exposing the Privacy Risks Telegram, the popular messaging app known for its focus on privacy and security, which is highly questionable, has recently introduced a new feature that has left many users and security Frankline 1 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
News Introducing the New Proton Mail Desktop App After years of offering email privacy and security through their web and mobile apps, Proton Mail has finally released official desktop clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux users, three months Frankline 17 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
News Cloudflare open sources Pingora, its high-performance Rust-based proxy framework Cloudflare, a major content delivery network and web security company, recently announced the open sourcing of Pingora, its in-house developed Rust-based proxy framework. Pingora has been powering Cloudflare's Frankline 2 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
News Fedora Asahi Remix 39 - Bringing the Best of Linux Privacy to Apple Silicon Macs The release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39 marks a major milestone in bringing a fully-featured and polished Linux experience to Apple's M-series chips. Developed through close collaboration between Frankline 29 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
News Beware of What the New Outlook Shares with Microsoft Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used email clients in the world, both for personal and business use. However, recent changes to the Outlook software have privacy advocates Frankline 5 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
News Roundcube joins Nextcloud: Revolutionizing Email Privacy and Decentralization The open source email landscape saw a significant development recently with the merger of Roundcube, the renowned webmail client, with Nextcloud, the leading content collaboration platform. This partnership brings together Frankline 4 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
News Google's Plan to Protect Users from IP Tracking and Why You Should Be Concerned Google recently announced plans to incorporate their own IP protection feature into Chrome by default in future releases. This IP protection will work by routing users' traffic through Google-run Frankline 28 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
News Google's Controversial Manifest V3 Changes - The End of Ad Blocking? TL;DR * Google Chrome is set to make sweeping changes to how extensions work via its transition to Manifest V3, but privacy advocates warn this could deal a major blow Frankline 27 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
News Apple Issues Urgent Security Update to Patch Zero-Click iPhone Spyware Vulnerability Apple recently issued an emergency security update to patch a zero-click vulnerability in iPhones that was being actively exploited to install sophisticated Pegasus spyware. The Vulnerability Researchers at Citizen Lab Frankline 10 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
News Your Ride is Tracking You - Modern Cars are a Privacy Nightmare. ~Mozilla Modern vehicles have become connected computers on wheels, but all that connectivity comes at a huge cost to user privacy. A recent report from Mozilla Foundation reveal just how much Frankline 10 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
News Brave Search Launches Private Image and Video Search Brave Search, the privacy-focused search engine from the makers of the Brave browser, has introduced its own private image and video search capabilities. This is a big move that allows Frankline 4 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
News Hackers stealing Signal, WhatsApp user data with fake SafeChat app A fake Android chat app called “SafeChat” is being used to steal user data from popular messaging platforms like Signal and WhatsApp. This advanced Android malware, disguised as a secure Frankline 3 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
News A Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability in Google Chrome (CVE-2023-2136) - Fixed If you are using Google Chrome as your web browser, you may be at risk of a serious security threat. A zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-2136, has been discovered and Frankline 20 Apr 2023 · 3 min read
News CVE-2023-23397: A Critical Outlook Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild On March 14, 2023, Microsoft released its monthly security updates, which included patches for 76 vulnerabilities across various products. Among them was CVE-2023-23397, a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in Frankline 20 Mar 2023 · 3 min read
News Exploring the Impact of Starlink's Satellite Internet Service Launch in Africa: Opportunities and Cybersecurity Concerns The launch of Starlink satellite internet service in Africa is set to revolutionize the way people in remote and underserved areas access the internet. Provided by SpaceX, founded by Elon Frankline 16 Jan 2023 · 4 min read
News LastPass Data Breach: What You Need to Know LastPass has recently disclosed some more information about the breach that happened in June, and the impact may be worse than we initially thought. This can be seen in discussions Frankline 27 Dec 2022 · 3 min read
News Is Google dropping FloC? (Probably NOT!) Google announced this week that they will be dropping FloC but they’re not really dropping it, they’re just rebranding it as topics. A quick recap of FloC for Frankline 4 Feb 2022 · 2 min read