Archive for the 'Security' Category

GPG Encrypt Gmail on the go

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Now you can have GPG encryption of your Gmail. This becomes pretty powerful when combined with portable firefox. Even Google would have a hard time cataloging and data mining your email. It works nicely.
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GPG Keys on an Encrypted Pen Drive

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

This one I pretty much followed what this link said to do. I’m poting it here so it’s easier to find later.
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Upgrading a LUKS encrypted hard drive (Ubuntu)

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Recently I wanted to upgrade (plop in a bigger) my hard drive in my laptop. Currently I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed with whole disk encryption. The only change I was making was the size of my hard drive. I wasn’t sure how I’d mount an encrypted partition managed via LVM. But [...]

Monster Compromised Accounts - The future of phishing scams

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Since the icendent that happened to the job site Monster.com, I’ve been thinking. Here’s some of the thoughts I’ve been stuck on:

Monster was not hacked
Users of Monster were hacked
Bot networks and phishing works despite all the education and warnings
This possibly, at least in my mind, open the door for a more dangerous attack

I’ll be [...]


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