The Rise of the Country Cloud

We’ve all heard of the private cloud and the public cloud Well how about a country cloud?

Last week a story surfaced about Deutsche Telekom (DT), the German telecommunications giant, asking German regulators to provide a certificate for German and EU companies that proves the data is protected from US government prying.

DT intends to offer customers a more secure alternative and it wants some certification system in place to prove it. Let’s face it, the EU has much more stringent privacy laws in place to protect companies from government interference with their data.

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Apple Makes a Hash of Password Security (Again)

Apple has dropped a couple of monumental password security clangers with the release on OS X Lion, according to security blogger Patrick Dunstan.

He discovered Apple’s developers had made user security worse in two important ways: firstly, it’s possible to change the password of the current user without needing to know the original password, as Dunstan explains.

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[The lion eats one bad apple!!!!]

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Simple Security by Evaluating Open Ports

A simple but effective procedure for evaluating security on your computer is to check what sites it’s connecting to, or what sites are connecting to it. Most critical malware nowadays turn computers into zombies for botnets — typically zombified hosts will connect to a central server using IRC. Or it could be that you’re inadvertently running a program that’s listening for Internet requests. In any case, it’s good to check these connections.

In TCP/IP, connections happen by way of ports. A port is a number that uniquely identifies a connection. Some ports are well-known and usually identified with a service, e.g. port 80 for HTTP requests.

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Understanding Nmap Commands: In Depth Tutorial Part II

This is the second part of our guide on Nmap, you can find the first part here, in this part of the tutorial we’ll see other configurations that you can use with Nmap to avoid firewalls or debug the information obtained.

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Breath Detector to Help Find Earthquake Survivors

EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS ARE notoriously difficult to locate under tons of rubble, but now scientists have developed sensors that can locate those trapped by detecting traces of their breath and sweat.

The sensor, developed in the UK, detects metabolites – complex, gassy chemicals released during breathing, sweating and urinating.

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