The encryption used by popular several disk encryption systems such as Apple’s Filevault, the Bitlocker feature in Windows Vista, TrueCrypt or dm-crypt is not that secure after all.
That is the conclusion of researchers of Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The flaw is actually a design limitation in the current way disk encryption systems [...]
Concerned about your digital security? Aren’t we all?
Check out this list of security related applications for GNU/Linux by Fayax.info and find some nice tools you didn’t know about!
I was searching for a good article on how to configure Squid (the famous and excellent proxy server) so that it can authenticate with Active Directory (or LDAP in general) and found this excellent article on the PaperCut Knowledgebase.
I’m really getting closer to kicking out that damn ISA server!
You probably read all about OpenID in my previous post and as promised here is a tutorial on how to install your own OpenID server. At the end of this article you’ll have your own OpenID and you’ll be your own OpenID provider.
To be able to run your own OpenID server all you need is [...]
I blogged about Truecrypt in my last post and mentioned the two excellent GUI’s available for GNU/Linux users. The EasyCrypt GUI has been rapidly improving since the project got announced by Steven Harper, it’s main developer.
Let’s have a look at what EasyCrypt has to offer.
Users of the popular PGP software are probably aware of the Open Source GnuPG that can replace PGP for encryption. But an often used feature of PGP, especially in corporate environments, is the ability to encrypt entire disks, partitions or create virtual disks that are encrypted. This feature isn’t included in GnuPG but there are [...]
If you are a geek like me or just a privacy aware person you’re probably using encryption to secure your communications. If not, you really should get started…
There are lots of tools to make using encryption easier. One popular and well known tool is Seahorse, a powerful GnuPG frontend from Gnome.
Another great piece of software [...]
The Virtual Hosting Blog has a 15 point report card on operating system security. It compares the various security related portions of Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
For the impatient: Mac OS X gets A-, Ubuntu receives a B+ and Windows Vista gets a B-.
These days everyone that’s active online has at least a couple of accounts that are protected with a username and password combination. We all know that we should use different passwords for all our accounts but we all know we sin against this rule. One password, maybe two for all our accounts. Security, this not [...]
One of the most common things around is automatic login on an ssh server. But a lot of administrators don’t know how to do this. In this short article I’ll show you how to generate a public ssh key (if you don’t already have one) and transfer it over to the remote server so you [...]