Category: computer security
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Secure Hash Algorithms AKA SHA – using shake-512sum for show-identical-files.sh
There is a book at O’Reilly’s:
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a cross-platform password manager: KeePassXC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePassXC https://KeePassXC.org https://www.mankier.com/1/keepassxc-cli – manual page for the command line interface https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Password_Tools/
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the “Ted” conference 2014 in Vancouver: Edward Snowden on privacy and NSA snooping
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25953413
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Kaspersky discovers new version of German state-sponsored trojan – The H Security: News and Features
Kaspersky discovers new version of German state-sponsored trojan – The H Security: News and Features: “The researchers also discovered a 64-bit driver signed using a certificate issued by fictitious CA Goose Cert; 64-bit versions of Windows will not load unsigned drivers. A normal copy of Windows will not accept the fake certificate, meaning that the…
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Mac OS X Lion makes it unnecessarily easy for password crackers – The H Security: News and Features
Mac OS X Lion makes it unnecessarily easy for password crackers – The H Security: News and Features: A security expert reports that under Lion, even users without root privileges have access to other users’ password hashes. Hashes can be used to establish the original password
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Mac OS X Lion fails to check passwords when authenticating via LDAP – The H Security: News and Features
Mac OS X Lion fails to check passwords when authenticating via LDAP – The H Security: News and Features: When the new version of Mac OS X uses the LDAP directory service to store user data centrally, a username alone is sufficient to log onto Mac systems. In some circumstances it is also possible for…