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Raspberry Pi as security device, first look on IPFire
Raspberry Pi is an interesting candidate for a low cost, low power, small and open source based security device to be used at small office or at home office (SOHO), or for protecting your home automation… However, some preconcerns were … Continue reading
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Synergy, tool for sharing keyboard and mouse over network
Synergy is an open source tool for using one keyboard and mouse for 2 (or more) computers over the network. Usage is simple, just move mouse from one screen into another. Clipboard is supported. In the figure above, desktop with … Continue reading
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Is IP address personal data? (from criminal law point of view)
CoE (Council of Europe) Cybercrime has pubslihed a report called “Rules on obtaining subscriber information“, where questionnaire responses from different countries has been published. Some of the questions are: Question 1: Is the term “IP address” defined for criminal law … Continue reading
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gImageReader, OCR tool for capturing text from scanned images
gImageReader can recognize text from scanned documents or books. The OCR (Optical character recognition) used is based on tesseract-ocr engine. It is free and open source. There also exist a portable version for PortableApps. Wikipedia: Optical character recognition (OCR) is … Continue reading
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Recommended Book: Cybersecurity for executives
A new book from 2014 “Cybersecurity for Executives: A Practical Guide” is a great book, and definitely worth for reading for persons working on the security management, or as the title says, for executives. Title: Cybersecurity for executives Author : … Continue reading
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Ditto, tool for pasting unformatted text
MS Windows does not have a keyboard shortcut for copy pasting text only. In the long run it can be very tedious copy-pasting process when creating presentations or writing documents. Ditto (open source) is a good alternative for this. It … Continue reading
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2 Reports on Cybercrime
EC3 (European Cybercrime Centre at Europol) has published a good report on the cybercrime, worth to take a look. The other report by McAfee complements with estimations of the costs. Definitions TechTarget: Cybercrime is a term for any illegal activity … Continue reading
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