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No excuses -- encrypt all laptops

Every year, more than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities. According to our research, in 2008 companies' topmost security investment was laptop encryption. Laptop hard drives are getting bigger and now can hold hundreds of thousand to hundreds of millions of sensitive records.

Can obscurity make cryptography better?

I often disagree when the so-called experts talk about security in terms of binary decisions. Managing security risk is always a cost/benefit trade-off compared to the value of the thing being protected.

How to avoid the Debian SSH key attacks

If you are running a Debian-based Linux system and haven't already caught up with the announcement [1] that there was a major flaw with the generation of SSH, OpenVPN, DNSSEC, SSL/TLS session keys and X.509 certificate key material, you might want to update your system to address the problem.

7 dirty secrets of the security industry

Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas.

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