Raymond Lott

General Cybersecurity Resources and Relevant Information

This material was originally created to go along with a community cybersecurity training conference. The PowerPoint used can be found here

Good sources of information

• Electronic Frotier Foundation
  • The leading non-profit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
  • Check out their Surveillance Self-Defense resources
• The privacy subreddit
• Digital Security Checklist for Activists
• 404 Media
  • Journalist founded media company focussed on technology

Recommended Tools

• A large list of recommended tools
• Ublock Origin: an addblocker extenion for multiple browsers
• Mullvad VPN
  • My recommended VPN
• LibreWolf Browser
  • Firefox with better security defaults
• Tor Browser
• Bitwarden Password Manager
• Privacy Badger
  • Browser extension that prevents trackers

General Information

• Introduction to Digital Self-Defense
• Atlas of Surveillance
  • Documenting surveillance techniques used across the country. Also includes a map of user reported surveillance systems
• Hitchhicker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
  • Great guide documenting how to stay anonymous online. A bit advanced, but can be followed by anyone willing to read carefully
• Maoist Internationlist Ministry of Prisons
• PortSwigger Web Security Info
  • This is targeted more towards professionals, but there’s good information here. PortSwigger creates hacking tools for Security Professionals.

Sources for the physical handouts given out

• Malware Information Handout
• Privacy at the US Border Handout
• Talking to Police Handout
• Tor Handout

Articles

• California Police track immigration protestors with AI
• Authorities are creating AI profiles on social media to collect intelligence
• Miami-Dade county purchased and used Cell-Site Simulators for tracking protestors
• Detroit has used IMSI catchers to find and deport illegal immigrants
• ACLU discusses why end-to-end encryption is important
• Doxxing prevention and mitigation
• Police use dragent search techniques to arrest murder suspects
• ICE is accessing an AI facial recognition survice (Flock) to track immigrants
• Facebook has tracked Android users’ activity accross apps without permission
  • Research Paper with technical details

Books

• Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America by Michael Bazzell
  • Definitive guide for erasing one’s digital footprint.
• “Turn Off Your Phone”: Digital Security Zine
• An Activists Guide to Information Security Zine
• The Palestine Library: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
• Tribe of Hackers
  • Collection of stories and advice from cybersecurity professionals
• Sandworm by Andy Greenburg
  • Covering the largest scale cyberattack in history. Russian attackers take down Ukraine’s power grid.
• Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
  • Spyware developed by Israel that can be remotely installed on mobile phones

Podcasts / Videos

• It Could Happen Here podcast episode about digital hygeine
  • Specifically targeting vulnerable groups, and how they can protect themselves from getting doxxed.
• Darknet Diaries
  • A podcast about hackers, breaches, and techniques used by malicious actors
• Security Now
  • A podcast directed towards cybersecurity professionals