How to use Signal for encrypted SMS messages
Tech Republic Security
APRIL 21, 2016
Jack Wallen shows you how to get up and running with the encrypted SMS app Signal.
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Concerns about usb security are real: 48% of people do plug-in usb drives found in parking lots
Elie
APRIL 10, 2016
As an experiment we dropped nearly 300 USB sticks on the UIUC campus to assess if USB drop attacks work and see if concerns about USB security were justified. We found out that at least 48% of the drive were plugged. This blog post summarizes how we ran the study, highlights the key findings, looks at what motivates people to plug in USB sticks, and discusses possible mitigations to improve USB security.
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Know Thy[self] Environment
NopSec
APRIL 27, 2016
Securing an environment is a constant game of cat-and-mouse. Safety measures of all kinds can (and should) be put in place to protect against malicious actors, downtime, and other business impacting variables. A production stack can be an extremely complex system with dozens of applications, databases, networking security groups, user permissions, etc., so what are some of these safety measures and practices that can be used, and whose responsibility is it to make sure the stack is safe?
The Motivation And Design Behind Autogenerated Challenges
ForAllSecure
APRIL 11, 2016
In nearly all CTF competitions organizers spend dozens of hours creating challenges that are compiled once with no thought for variation or alternate deployments. For example, a challenge may hard-code in a flag, making it hard to change later, or hard-code in a system-specific resource. At ForAllSecure, we are working to build automatically generated challenges from templates.
Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management
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Cyber threat hunting: How this vulnerability detection strategy gives analysts an edge
Tech Republic Security
APRIL 18, 2016
Forensic experts indicate cyber threat hunting is an improvement over what currently exists for detecting security threats. Find out what makes cyber threat hunting unique.
How to add more VPN setup options on your Ubuntu Touch device
Tech Republic Security
APRIL 27, 2016
If you find the default VPN options on Ubuntu Touch lacking, here's how to expand the available options with the help of a third-party click package.
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This post provides an in-depth analysis of the lessons we learned while protecting Gmail users and their inboxes. We felt it was about time to share the key lessons we learned the hard way while protecting Gmail for over a decade, so everyone involved in building an online product can benefit from them. To that effect, with the help of various Gmail safety leaders and long-time engineers, I distilled these lessons into a 25-minute talk for Enigma called “Lessons learned while protecting Gmail”.
Improving Business Outcomes With VRM
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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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The Motivation And Design Behind Autogenerated Challenges
ForAllSecure
APRIL 11, 2016
In nearly all CTF competitions organizers spend dozens of hours creating challenges that are compiled once with no thought for variation or alternate deployments. For example, a challenge may hard-code in a flag, making it hard to change later, or hard-code in a system-specific resource. At ForAllSecure, we are working to build automatically generated challenges from templates.
THE MOTIVATION AND DESIGN BEHIND AUTOGENERATED CHALLENGES
ForAllSecure
APRIL 11, 2016
In nearly all CTF competitions organizers spend dozens of hours creating challenges that are compiled once with no thought for variation or alternate deployments. For example, a challenge may hard-code in a flag, making it hard to change later, or hard-code in a system-specific resource. At ForAllSecure, we are working to build automatically generated challenges from templates.
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