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IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge (EBK)
IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge (EBK) is competence framework for IT Security, published by DHS (Department of Homeland Security). It introduces roles and competence areas, and defines how these are mapped with each other. The documents available are: IT … Continue reading
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Security Awareness material available, by ENISA
ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) has published a set of usefull material as part of their Awareness Raising project: Video clips Posters for organizations for parents Illustrations Screen savers
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TestDisk, Tool for recovering data and pictures on hard disks and USB drives
TestDisk is an free (open source) console based tool for recoving data. TestDisk includes another tool PhotoRec, which better for recovering photos from memory cards. (It is safer to recover files since it access USB drive as readonly.) It is … Continue reading
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WinMD5, Tool for maintaining integrity of important files and documents
WinMD5 is a great portable tool for calculating and comparing MD5 hashes of files. With this tool one can check that the content of your important documents and files has not been changed. Positive: Portable Open source drag&drop Can create … Continue reading
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HxD, Tool for editing/viewing binary data like files, memory and disk
HxD is a free tool which can be used for investigating not only files but also disks and memory. It supports big files and comes with additional features, like file wiping, checksum and file comparison. For a portable simple hex … Continue reading
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wxHexEditor, Portable tool for viewing/editing binary data
wxHexEditor is simple hex viewer/editor for binary files and hard & usb drives. Positive: Open source Portable Supports big files See another blog for other hex editors with more functionality.
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Undelete 360, Tool for undeleting and deleting files on hard disk or on USB drives
There are several tools for recoving accidentally deleted files. One of them is Undelete 360. The success of the recovery depends very much on the immediate actions made after accidental deletion of the file(s). In some cases, the antivirus and … Continue reading
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