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WordPress Upgraders — Did You Miss New Security?

29.Apr.08 | 5 Comments

If you’ve just upgraded your WordPress blog — as opposed to a new install — it is possible that you’ve missed out on a new security feature introduced with WordPress 2.5x. Why do I think that’s possible? Well, because I did.
WP 2.5 introduced a “security key” that you add to your wp-config.php file. When I [...]

TrueCrypt updates

18.Apr.06 | 1 Comment

TrueCrypt is a big part of keeping my work laptop secure. Dunno about you, but I live in mortal fear of losing a mobile machine that also happens to be my primary work computer! I have created a handful of encrypted volumes on it for some of our more “proprietary” documents and have [...]

TrueCrypt - open-source disk encryption

19.Mar.06 | 1 Comment

Man, I hope these snow forecasts are even somewhat close to reality…
Been playing with TrueCrypt a bit this afternoon. Peter has mentioned it to me a few times via IM. It was mentioned on this week’s Security Now podcast. Seemed like I should have a look based on what I was hearing.
The [...]

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