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Find and Fix with Secunia’s Personal Software Inspector

September 29, 2008

Excluding the Human element, software patching can be one of the most difficult and time consuming tasks of any user or sysadmin. When you consider the number of applications we rely on and how often bugs are found and fixed it is a near insurmountable task to stay up to date with latest and most [...]

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Using File Erasure tool could be seen as suspicious

July 31, 2008

Have you ever used a file shredder utility? Ever considered that by merely using such a program that your actions could be construed as suspicious activity? I’m always recommending people use a file shredder to shred sensitive digital documents. I personally use CyberShredder. (Quick, Easy, Free) Why should you use a shredder instead of the [...]

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obstcp by Google Code

June 26, 2008

obstcp stand for Obfuscated TCP and it is a new project brought to us from the fine folks at Google. According to Google “It’s designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet”. Those are two great verbs hamper AND detect. Google provides a great paper that clarifies the [...]

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Intro to Truecrypt by IronGeek

August 19, 2007

I’ve intended for sometime to write a paper that would serve as an introduction to Truecrypt. Then I discovered that Mr. Irongeek had already produced an excellent video introduction. So instead of reinventing the wheel I’ll refer you to his work. What is Truecrypt? It is free open-source disk encryption software and if you use [...]

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