Recently the Australian government had a garage sale and sold filing cabinets full of secret documents. The person that purchased the cabinets discovered the secret documents and passed them onto the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the ABC. ASIO (the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) visited the ABC to provide them with a
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Google’s Gmail and Mirosoft’s Office 365 email services send email between each other using TLS. Find out more at Gmails “learn more” page. This is great news and a comforting thought that these companies care about communications security. Provided that the keys are safe, so too are our communications –
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This is possibly the single most important change you can make to your web server “vhost” to improve security to the entire server. PHP can do anything it likes to your server that the user it runs as can. In other words, it can read your “/etc/passwd” file, your filrewall
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Keeping your Mac up to date is no less important than any other system. Despite popular belief, MacOS should be considered just as susceptible to malware as any other operating system. One might argue that MacOS is based on BSD/Linux and therefore inherently more secure but just because one operating
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In the past we would hate the idea of anyone listening in on your personal conversations. In fact, i bet it scares you know. So why are we inviting Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung and others into our homes to listen and watch our lives? These companies are “marketing” their way
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We go to great lengths to protect company data with backups, access controls and staff training but what if someone with access tries to take intellectual property from the business computer systems for their own gain? What can you do about it? That’s the topic of this article. It’s not
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An excellent video on the current state of US voting systems and how threats are being discovered and discussed among experts.
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This article explains how to configure OpenVPN on pfSense as well as some hints for the client. We’re using version 2.3.2 (the current version is 2.3.3_1). OpenVPN is one of (if not the) best VPN’s available. This is according to the “Snowden” documents. Log into the pfSense portal. Notice the
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The cyber security threats are increasing and the solution either isn’t known or very poorly communicated to those who can actually make a difference. The later is my assumption and the topic of this article. No matter how many resources the authorities have, no matter how technologically advanced they are,
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This article shows how to check if your SSL key and certificate match. Why would you do this? Suppose you’ve just purchased a certificate and in the process mixed up your files OR perhaps the files aren’t named in the way the documentation suggests they are. Let’s first see what
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