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Password Encryption 101: Best Practices Guide for Orgs of All Sizes

SecureWorld News

Keeping software and operating systems up to date, using security software, and being careful when opening email attachments or clicking links can help avoid malware. Argon2 Argon2 is a password hashing function explicitly constructed to resist both brute-force attacks and pre-computed hash table attacks.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Operating Systems/Applications. More information on the use of the immutable server construct is also available here. Very good stuff!

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

eliminates the need for administrators to think about network constructs and enables fine-grained access control to implement comprehensive least-privileged access. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

You know with modern vehicles, they're actually becoming like they're running on bluetooth, they're running the Android operating system. Vamosi: What unites these microcontrollers is not an operating system, rather it's a bus. A bus is a communication system that transfers data between components. What's that?