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**Personal Cyber Security: Useful Links**<br>
See also: [Personal Security Checklist](https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/blob/master/README.md)
# Awesome Privacy & Securty [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat2.svg)](https://awesome.re) [![PRs Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square)](http://makeapullrequest.com)
> A curated list of useful tools and resources online, that help protect your privacy and keep you safe.
## Resources
- Tips for safer online communications: https://ssd.eff.org/
- Tools to protect agains mass surveillance: https://www.privacytools.io
- Secure app alternatives: https://prism-break.org/en/all/
- Guides for securing mobile, web and home tech https://bit.ly/2ptl4Wm
- Complete guide to secure email: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
## Foundations
- Contract for the Web: https://contractfortheweb.org/
- Electronic Frountier Foundation, Defending digital privacy + more: https://www.eff.org/
- OWASP Foundation: https://www.owasp.org
- The Privacy Project, by the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html
- Freedom House, Fighting for freedom on the net: https://freedomhouse.org/
- Privacy International: https://privacyinternational.org/
- Open Tech Fund: https://www.opentech.fund/
- Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://freedom.press/
- Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
- LEAP Encryption Access Project: https://leap.se/
## Blogs
- Spread Privacy, Raising the standard of trust online, by DuckDuckGo: https://spreadprivacy.com/
- Restore Privacy, tools and guides about privacy and security: https://restoreprivacy.com/
- That One Privacy Site, impartial comparisons and discussions: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
- The Hated One, Privacy and security videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjr2bPAyPV7t35MvcgT3W8Q
- 12Bytes, Opinion Articles about Tech, Privacy and more: https://12bytes.org/articles/tech
- BringBackPrivacy, easy-reading, sharable privacy articles: https://bringingprivacyback.com/
- Heimdal, Cyber Security Blog: https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/
- Tech Crunch, Cyber Security 101: https://techcrunch.com/tag/cybersecurity-101/
- OONI, Internet freedom and analysis on blocked sites: https://ooni.org/post/
- Cyber Security Discusions on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/
- Pixel Privacy: https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/
## How-To Guides & 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/
## Online Tools
- Check if your details have been compromised: https://haveibeenpwned.com and https://www.dehashed.com/
- Check where a suspicious URL redirects to, Redirect Detective: https://redirectdetective.com/
- Check which trackers any app on the Play Store has, εxodus: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
- Analyse a suspicious web resource for malware, VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/
- Check if a website is a scam, before buying from it, ScamAdviser: https://www.scamadviser.com/
- Clean up your online presence: https://www.deseat.me/
- Avoid revealing your real email address, by auto-generating aliases for each accound, 33Mail: http://33mail.com/Dg0gkEA
- Check if your browser is checking you, Panopticlick: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- A suit of online tools, with online freedom in mind, Disroot: https://disroot.org/
- Check if your website is blocked by certain ISPs, Blocked by ORG: https://www.blocked.org.uk/
- Find, understand and use information from privacy policies, Data Rights Finder: https://www.datarightsfinder.org/
## Installable Tools
- Block invisible trackers, Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- Ensure HTTPS, HTTPSEverywhere: eff.org/https-everywhere
- Block ads that track you: Adblock Plus: https://adblockplus.org/
- Allows plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice, ScriptSafe: https://github.com/andryou/scriptsafe
- Client-side encryption for cloud storage, Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/
- Isolate Android apps for privacy, Island: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_GB
- Stay behind a secure connection with a VPN, Comparioson of VPN https://www.comparisonvpn.com/
- Get a password manager, to generate super-strong unique passwords and securly store autofill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers
## Mobile Apps
- A sandbox environment to clone selected apps and isolate them from accessing your: [Island](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_GB)
- Tor connection on phone: [Orbot](https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/)
- App firewall for Android. Shows detailed permissions, network activity per app, and allows for easy monitoring and restrictions: [NetGaurd](https://www.netguard.me/)
- Monitor trackers and permssions each of your installed apps has: [Exodus](https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/page/what/#android-app)
- Easily enable CloudFlares secure DNS, and DNS over HTTPS with 1-tap: [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/)
-Detect network intruders. identify connected devices and monitor home WiFi: [Fing App](https://www.fing.com/products/fing-app)
- Grant temporary app permissions: [Bouncer](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.permission)
- Learn about Encryption & Cryptography: [Crypto](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kokoschka.michael.crypto)
- PiHole dashboard and control panel for your phone (requires an installation of PiHole): [FlutterHole](https://github.com/sterrenburg/flutterhole)
-Mobile privacy browser, that erases history, cookies and session data when closed: [Firefox Focus](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.focus)
- Encrypts data before it is uploaded to cloud storage: [Cryptomator](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cryptomator)
- Simple, fast encrypted notepad: [Safe Notes](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.protectedtext.android)
## Books
- Permanent Record (by Edward Snowden): https://amzn.to/30wxxXi
- Sandworm (by Andy Greenberg): https://amzn.to/2FVByeJ
## Videos
- Why you should switch you should switch off your home WiFi: https://youtu.be/2GpNhYy2l08
- You are being watched, by The New York Times: https://youtu.be/c8jDsg-M6qM
- The Power of Privacy, by The Guardian: https://youtu.be/KGX-c5BJNFk
- Why Privacy matters, even if you have nothing to hide: https://youtu.be/Hjspu7QV7O0
## Papers and Academic Journals
https://github.com/cryptoseb/cryptopaper/
WireGuard White Paper: https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
## Implementations and Standards
- The GNU Privacy Guard: https://www.gnupg.org/
- OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation: https://openpgpjs.org/
## Data and API's
- A database or Current software vulnerabilities, Exploit Database: https://www.exploit-db.com/
- Detailed VPN Comparison Data: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison
- Trackers in Android Apps, Exodus: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/trackers/stats/
- Hosts to block: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- Service scanning for malisious domains, URLScan: https://urlscan.io/
- Data Breaches and Credentials: https://www.dehashed.com/breach
## Government Cyber Security Organisations
- UK National Cyber Security Center: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
- US Cybersecurity: National Institue of Standards and Technology https://www.nist.gov/topics/cybersecurity
## Mega Guides
- https://fried.com/privacy
- https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides
- https://proprivacy.com/guides/the-ultimate-privacy-guide
- https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/cyber-security-mega-guide
## Other GitHub Security Lists
- privacy-respecting by @nikitavoloboev: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting
- awesome-privacy by @KevinColemanInc: https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy
- Security_list by @zbetcheckin: https://github.com/zbetcheckin/Security_list
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