Category Archives: Security
Flow diagram of payment card data, or personal data, in the cloud
The recent PCI DSS Information supplement “PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines” emphasizes the same message as earlier guidelines like ISO standard “29100 Privacy Framework“ NIST SP 800-122: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) NIST SP 800-122: … Continue reading
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Protecting your work by timestamping your file fingerprints
Are you sharing or producing photos, images, music, videos, programs, documents or anything else and you are concerned on how to proof that your work is yours? First of all, you need to be able to show that you really … Continue reading
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FileVerifier++ and Karen’s Hasher, GUI Tools for fingerprinting your files with SHA-512
In an earlier blog, a GUI tool called WinMD5 was recommended for maintaining integrity of your files. However, hash calculation based on SHA-512 is more security nowadays. For example, if you need to proof to others, that you possessed a … Continue reading
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DIY Spectrometer, and notes on online Spectral Workbench
There exist several variations of DIY spectrometer by using CD or DVD as the main component (ie. generating the rainbow of colors by diffraction from the optical disk grooves). The output is a spectra, light intensity versus wavelength. In Wikipedia: … Continue reading
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EclipseCrossword, Tool for creating crossword puzzles for training or for fun
EclipseCrossword is one of the crossword creating tools available. It can be usefull as part of the training, for example during security awareness training. Or for creating a monthly competition… Good: Can import your clues and answers text file (csv) … Continue reading
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Quaterly Threats Reports, by McAfee
McAfee is producing quaterly threat reports which are very informative and summarizes the latest “threats”. McAfee Threats Report: Third Quarter 2012 McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2012 I have not found any good page which presents these reports. However, they … Continue reading
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Security short film “Companies like yours”, by Deloitte
Deloitte has published a well done short film. Worth to look! Companies like yours “Deloitte supported the creation of a short film to illustrate the complex topic of cyber security and help organisations understand the huge impact a cyber attack … Continue reading
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