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Apple FileVault 2 on older Mac’s with SSD

Apple’s FileVault2 is a valuable addition to OS X Lion. It offers full disk-encryption which I find to be something mandatory on notebooks these days. On ‘newer’ Apple MacBooks, say since the Intel i5 and i7 architecture, FileVault 2 has … Continue reading

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Yubikey personalisation tool

Version 0.94 of the Yubikey personalisation tool is available now. http://code.google.com/p/yubikey-personalization/downloads/list

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Advanced SSH security tips and tricks

Linux.com has a nice article covering some tips and tricks on advancedSSH security. http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/1423232

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Secunia Software Inspector

Secunia offers a free online security inspection of Windows PC’s. It audits a PC for insecure versions of applications using the vulnerability database of Secunia.Feature Overview:* Detects insecure versions of applications installed* Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied* Assists … Continue reading

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Sleuth Kit

The Sleuth Kit (previously known as TASK) is a collection of UNIX-based command line file and volume system forensic analysis tools. The file system tools allow you to examine file systems of a suspect computer in a non-intrusive fashion. Because … Continue reading

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Wireshark

… thats the new name for the popular Ethereal protocol analyzer. http://www.wireshark.org/

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