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07/27/2014

New OpenPGP Key, 0xC004BAE3 (2014)

After 11 years, I have chosen to transition my OpenPGP/GnuPG cryptographic key pair from a 1024-bit to a 4096-bit RSA key. The new key is ID 0xC004BAE3. Please review the fingerprint and update your keychain accordingly.

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07/07/2014

Introduction to OpenPGP: Decrypt this Message

In this first part of Introduction to OpenPGP, learn to password protect a file using GnuPG, which supports symmetric encryption in addition to its more powerful asymmetric mode.

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06/05/2014

Retake the Net for Privacy!

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06/05/2014

What a Ruby developer can do to help prevent a Data Breach - 2014

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05/30/2014

Humana data breach in Atlanta for an unencrypted USB disk

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05/27/2014

ModSecurity and Fail2Ban as an Intrusion Prevention System

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05/22/2014

Defense in Depth

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05/15/2014

YubiKey Authentication Devices

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04/07/2014

OpenSSL Vulnerability, Patch 1.0.1 Immediately

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01/23/2014

Anti-virus for Mac for PCI Compliance

PCI-DSS Requirement 5 says that anti-virus must be installed and used on all computers, including Mac OS X. Here is why and some good options to choose.

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