Admin Magazine

The secure communication solution gets an upgrade.

How easy is it to lose a USB stick? Why not protect your data just in case the stick falls into unfriendly hands?

Researchers set out to compromise MD5 in an effort to convince people to stop using it. We explain how the attack worked and what this means for you.

The idea of an industry-wide common cryptography standard is certainly welcome. But self-interest usually precedes usability, so two industry consortiums are now vying over which standards to adopt, one on the side of Sun and the other leaning toward IBM/HP. Then there is an additional player in the Trusted Computing Group.

The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.

Conventional, woodpecker-style port knocking is open to sniffing and brute force knocking attacks. Sending an encrypted packet with an access request to the server is safer and more modern. Learn more about Firewall Knock Operator, a.k.a. Fwknop.

Internet intruders have many ingenious ways of escalating privileges and hiding their presence once they get inside your system. The best protection is to keep them out in the cold.

Combining the Enigmail add-on and the GnuPG encryption software gives Thunderbird users a powerful tool for encrypting and signing email.