iOS Hardening Configuration Guide–Defence Signals Directorate
DaleSaw this on a co-workers desk the other day. Guess it means we’re going to tighten up some of the security settings on our corporate iPhones and iPads. Long overdue…
Why I wouldn’t swap hard drives on a laptop.
Dax0007 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…
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – April 2010
Your First Silverlight Application Learn how to write your first Silverlight application. Where to get the tools, and what settings to use during development. Only 4 lines of real code…
Internet Explorer Security Tab Restrictions
One of our web developers contacted me, and asked how they could look at the settings for the Trusted Zone in Internet Explorer. The Custom Level and Default Level buttons…