Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I came across this post on CloudFoundry’s User Account and Authentication Service (the UAA). This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. Only a true geek would be interested in this, but here’s some information on running OpenBSD in KVM on Linux.

Storage 92

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Knudsen: Normally I would use virtual machines for this, I go install Linux and install the other stuff and work away at the command line until I got to where I wanted it to be. This is how malware, for example, is analyzed; if the virtual machine gets infected and crashes, the physical machine isn’t impacted.

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