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Trend and Risk Reports, by IBM X-Force
IBM X-Force is regularly publishing Trend and Risk Report. According to their own definition: The IBM X-Force Trend and Risk Report is produced twice per year: once at mid-year and once at year-end. This report provides statistical information about all … Continue reading
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Unfortunate and Commonly used Passwords
Studies reveal that people can be careless and lazy (?) when selecting their passwords. Scary Logins: Worst Passwords of 2012 1 password 2 123456 3 12345678 4 abc123 5 qwerty 6 monkey 7 letmein 8 dragon 9 111111 10 baseball … Continue reading
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Hurricane Sandy, views from GOES-13 and Suomi NPP satellites
There has been several videos by NASA showing Hurricane Sandy from the wheather satellite. The video animation is taken from GEOS-13 satellite. GEOS The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)/ Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) program is a key element in … Continue reading
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General Documents and Guidance on Security, by US-CERT
US-CERT’s Security Publications site contains good introduction and guidance material around computer security for any user. General Documents Securing Your Computer Recovering from an Attack General Internet Security Technical Documents The site also provides links to their other pages, worth … Continue reading
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OpenSC, Tool for Smart Cards
At OpenSC page: OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and digital … Continue reading
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XCA, Tool for managing certificates and private/public keys
In XCA home page: X Certificate and Key management: This application is intended for creating and managing X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smartcards and CRLs. Everything that is needed for a CA is implemented. It … Continue reading
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EIDAuthenticate, Tool for smart card logon
With open source EIDAuthenticate it is possible to use 2-factor authentication, smart card + PIN, to login to Windows. EIDAuthenticate is for Windows Vista & later on stand alone computer (computer not in domain, ie. no Active Directory in use). … Continue reading
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