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Redux: Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords?

07

Jun

2012

Yesterday, LinkedIn confirmed reports that some member passwords have been compromised. Here’s some info from their blog: “It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our […]

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ZeroAccess Rootkit Launched by Signed Installers

22

Nov

2011

Digital certificates and certificate authorities have been much in the news recently. Attacks–such as those used by Stuxnet, Duqu, and other malware–involving stolen certificates show an increasingly worrisome new security trend. Certificate authorities have been targeted several times in the recent past with some success. There is a large chunk of known malware signed by […]

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You practice safe computing, so why do you still see malware?

13

Nov

2011

Quite regularly, I get feedback from our customers that they’ve found malware on their computer, and don’t know how it got there. While you may think this is due to malware exploiting unpatched bugs in the Windows operating system, it isn’t: these customers are predominantly using OS X, and they usually have all the latest […]

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