Why I wouldn’t swap hard drives on a laptop.
DaleDax0007 wrote in response to my point 14. Secure format/wipe hard disk, and replace with original disk. Repeat process. (21 Things to do when quitting work) “When taking over a…
Your IT security threat is in the tent with you.
Most of the time, some people say 80%+, your IT security threat is in the tent with you (ie. someone who works for you) . Based on experiences at different…
Today’s security theater brought to you by Iron Mountain
We have some of those “secure document disposal” bins. The older version used a latch with a padlock. The good thing about that design, was that there was only one…
You don’t need to bypass the TrueCrypt Rescue Disk check requirement now.
When I installed the latest release of TrueCrypt, TrueCrypt 7; I was very happy to see this prompt on a system without a CD/DVD drive: (previously TrueCrypt would stop you…
Bulk EFS decryption & encryption
Short story version: use the CIPHER command. I had a 3-2-1 backup fail on me recently." “21,684 files could not be copied”. The original files were EFS encrypted. Here’s a…
Automatically encrypting Firefox web pages
to stop snooping eyes from viewing what you’re doing. Well you could use the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plugin by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The idea is simple. You go to…
Inside a RSA SecurID tag
This is a “new style” RSA SecurID token. It, like the older style token, generates a code number every 30 seconds. With the code number, and a PIN code and…
Today’s password is ‘4rfvgy7uj’
Never heard about the concept of password “snakes” until I visited a customer 2 years ago. Password snakes, simply put, are passwords which follow a path on the keyboard, as…
Anti-virus False Positives – been a few
It was an Ed Bott article which got me to thinking, “just how many anti-virus false positives have I dealt with over the years?”. Six. A false positive is when…
The world knows where you live – that is not good.
It might be a bit of a surprise to you, it certainly was to me. The Apple iPhone stores the location of where a photo was taken. It’s known as…