February 27, 2017
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Well, this is annoying. Maryland’s Montgomery County schools are using Chromebooks. The school system is using about 120,000 Chromebooks and multiple PCs running the Chrome web browser. But when Google recently updated them to Chrome OS 56, over 30 percent couldn’t log on, while many PCs running Chrome were unable to reach the web.
Tens of thousands of Chromebooks fail because of Symantec BlueCoat problem. More>
February 27, 2017
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Things are looking for rosy for the public cloud from where IT research giant Gartner sits. Others, however, see the private cloud doing just fine.
February 27, 2017
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The real worry about Google showing SHA-1 encryption is crackable, as pointed out by Peter Gutmann, a cryptography expert at the at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is “with long-term document signing and certificates“. But, what about the distributed version control system Git code repositories? Linus Torvalds, Linux and Git’s inventor, doesn’t see any real security headaches ahead for you.
Linus Torvalds on SHA-1 and Git: ‘The sky isn’t falling.’ More>
February 24, 2017
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When the National Security Agency (NSA) introduced Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) in 2002 as an approved cryptographic security algorithm it was practically unbreakable. That was a long, long time ago.
February 23, 2017
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I have a friend who believes that his site is too small for crackers to ever bother with. Need I tell you his site was recently cracked open like an egg? You’ve got to take security seriously.
One of the most powerful tools you can use to protect yourself is the Open Vulnerability Assessment System, better known as OpenVAS.
OpenVAS: Checking for Holes Before the Hackers Do It for You. More>
February 22, 2017
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Well, here’s something different. Microsoft, for the first time since it started its monthly Patch Tuesdays in October 2003, has completely blown a deadline. There will be no major patch release in February. Instead, the patch package will be released on March 14.
Why? We don’t know and Microsoft isn’t saying.
Color me concerned.