Encrypt the Web Report: Who’s Doing What

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

We’ve asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA’s unlawful surveillance of your communications. We’re pleased to see that four companies—Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five of our best practices for encryption. In addition, we appreciate ...

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Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption

Thursday, August 15th, 2013

We know that security is important to you and your customers. Our goal is to make securing your data as painless as possible. To help, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. There is no setup or configuration required, no need ...

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New backdoor in HP server products

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Computer manufacturer HP has admitted that its StoreVirtual servers also contain an undocumented backdoor. The security vulnerability risks allowing attackers to gain unauthorised access to the storage systems. The backdoor provides users with direct access to the holy of holies, "LeftHand" (the operating system for the StoreVirtual server). HP has ...

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Use Splunk to show your active netstat connections, geographically

Friday, July 5th, 2013

I was geeking out a bit tonight thinking about a friend's situation and thought that I could probably do something useful in Splunk that might be helpful to others.  Sure enough, a few minutes later and I am viewing all my active netstat connections geographically as they are established:   Once the ...

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Malwarebytes backup service prevents malware uploads

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

Your hard drive crashes. You hit “Save” without thinking and an important version is overwritten and lost forever. Someone accidentally deletes all the wedding pics. You restore an infected file to your new computer and end up having to start all over again. Stuff happens. Having a backup is a good idea. ...

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