Data destruction: flame grilled usb, mmm tasty

Recently my two Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 2GB USB Drives have been playing up so I bought a replacement, a single Verbatim Store 'n' Go Micro 8GB USB Drive. My motto is do as you preach, think about a dentist with cracked teeth, what would you think?

So of course I needed to destroy the devices well. Despite the drives over the past years being formatted, blasted with random data, files being overwritten, encrypted and decrypted something stronger and more amusing was needed.

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LinkedIn; password hashing enough?

For the last few years I used to think LinkedIn compared to Facebook, Twitter and alike had better security and privacy but maybe now I am wrong.

All the stories from the past few days talk about poor password hashing and of course this is correct but we should also think how could someone pinch the password list in the first place.

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Servers added to the IT Security Guide

A server is the central hub of computers within a network and is often the central store for all computers. Lose it, have it hacked or have it corrupted and you have lost everything. Servers are often more forward-facing than desktops and laptops and servers in the cloud (VPS) are even more forward-facing and need more work to secure them. Out of the box, a Windows server needs quite a few tasks done to ‘security harden’ it. The information below is for a Windows server but some items may apply to other operating systems.................... Read the full page here.