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Key Escrow that Might Work

Instead of encrypting everything with a single government key, several government agencies need to provide new public keys every day. The private key must be under the control of a court. Each secure...

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Virtual Cables for IoT Devices

IoT devices are a security nightmare: They should be easy to use / set up but hard to hack. With classic devices, the solution is “cable”. If there is no cable between two devices, they can’t talk to...

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When Uncle Doc Gets Hacked

Most of the time, when users get infected with a computer virus or a Trojan, it’s a nuisance. But what happens when an important person becomes a victim of a cracker like your doctor? How about this...

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Surveillance Produces Blackmail Instead of Security

They say that “good” people have nothing to hide and, therefore, nothing to fear from surveillance. Everyone of us has something to hide. When we are confronted with out dark side, immediate, temporary...

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Balancing Security

For your IT security, you want Security It must be cheap And comfortable Now choose at most two. As always in life, everything has a cost. There is no cheap way to be secure which is also comfortable....

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Good Summary of Heartbleed

This article contains a good summary of the Heartbleed bug and it’s consequences. Want to know whether you’re affected? Check sites you use here: filippo.io/Heartbleed/ Note: You will want to check the...

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HTML5 vs. Security

“HTML5 vs. Security” was a talk given by Thomas Röthlisberger of Compass Security AG which gave a nice overview over some of the security problems that HTML5 brings. Areas covered by the talk:...

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Google Shares Your WLAN Passwords with NSA

If you “Back up my data” is enabled on your Android phone, then Google keeps a clear-text, unencrypted copy of your WLAN passwords on its servers. Since Google is an US company, the government and its...

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Overview Of Man in the Middle Attacks

David Blake posted a current overview of Man in the Middle type attacks: 15 Surprising Ways You Could Fall Victim to a Man in the Middle Attack These include: Key-loggers (hard- and software) Browser...

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CVE Changes Counter

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures or CVE is a registry for security related flaws and computer systems. The old counting system allowed only for 9’999 bugs per year. That’s no longer enough....

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Passwords Suck

On Wednesday, GitHub improved their code search. A few hours later, a couple of people had tried “begin rsa private key” and got more results than any sane person would anticipate. Just in case, this...

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Targeted Spamming via Facebook

  In the past few weeks, I started getting mails from friends which just contain a link: hey, Aaron     http://some-dubious-link/a/b/c/ 9/25/2012 12:34:56 PM Turns out that someone is analyzing my...

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Embarrassing Security Failure at PayPal

PayPal is one of the places who really care about security. But even they were vulnerable to XSS type of attacks using the search feature (see this article for details). At the moment, I’m not sure if...

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Stand up for your freedom to install free software!

Read the truth behind so-called “Secure Boot” and sign the statement. Tagged: Freedom, FSF, Secure Boot, Security, UEFI

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Who is Responsible For Data Theft?

Would you like to see your name, address, birth date and email on a public bill board? On the main street? What if the bill board is behind a big sign “don’t read this”? If that worries you, why do you...

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TNBT – Avoiding Common Errors

Writing secure code is ever more important. There are lots of examples: HBGary, Sony, Google. Even if you’re not one of the biggest companies out there, security starts to become important as soon as...

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