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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:47 AM

Shared accounts got you down?

Here’s a description of a tool I’ve been itching to release for some time now - “2ndAuth”, short for “secondary authentication”. This is how it works: 1. The user logs on using a shared account – an account that is known to be shared by a number of different...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:53 PM

FTP - Untrustworthy? I Don't Think So!

Lately, as if writers all draw from the same shrinking paddling-pool of ideas, I've noticed a batch of stories about how unsafe, unsecure and untrustworthy is FTP. SC Magazine says so. First it was an article in the print version of SC Magazine ,...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:02 PM

Searching for Weak Debian / Ubuntu SSL Certificates

I've seen a number of people promote packages that have shipped for Debian and Ubuntu, which allow users to scan their collected keys - OpenSSH or OpenSSL or OpenVPN, to discover whether they're too weak to be of any functional use. [See my earlier...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:13 PM

Wireless PC Lock - part 2

Over the last several days, I've been getting more and more requests for my updated Wireless PC Lock software that I described way back last year . Possibly, it's because of stories like this one : At New York-based Big Four accounting firm Ernst...
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