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.
February 22, 2017
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Usually, it would be another couple of months before the open-source OpenStack Foundation cloud released a new version of its cloud software. This time around the OpenStack community released the latest version, Ocata, on a one-time, shorter cycle. This release is focused on improving stability, scalability, and performance of the core compute and networking services.
New OpenStack Ocata stabilizes popular open-source cloud. More>
February 22, 2017
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Last fall, we saw the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever. This year we’ll see even bigger ones. According to Akamai‘s latest State of the Internet Security report, here’s what’s behind them.