If you could only go to one con in Vegas this week, which would it be?
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Up to this point the idea of successfully bleaching your SSD has been an imperfect art. Due to technologies designed to make SSDs last longer (e.g., wear leveling), securely erasing all content is pretty much near impossible. And traditional wiping techniques (e.g., Darik’s Boot and Nuke) can not be used since they drastically shorten the...
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Following up on an early 2013 post we came across another interesting article emphasizing the benefits of security-through-obscurity. The article starts with a description of Kerckhoff’s principle (“a cryptosystem should remain secure even if the attacker knows exactly how the system works”) and then...
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In the wake of concerns over potential NSA tampering with NIST’s random number generator guidance, the standards organization has released the first updated draft of Special Publication 800-90A Revision 1, titled “Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators.” The most notable change...
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Blackboard is hiring a Senior Software Analyst Engineer to join their team. If you enjoy contributing to open source projects, analyzing the security of applications and services through Threat Modeling, discovering and addressing security issues, collaborating with customers and employees worldwide, assessing designs against relevant security threats, this position...
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AARP is looking to hire a security analyst to provide support for the development and management of their network and IT security architecture, including the security management and configuration of related hardware, software and network. The analyst will collaborate with colleagues in Technology Service Management (TSM)...
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Where do you want to be this week? Now you’ll always know with our “Where You Want to Be This Week” feature, which will tell you about infosec meetups happening in your local area as of Sunday night. If you would like your event listed in...
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Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “QOTD: A Bad Career Choice in Security Would Be Learning Just the Big Vendor Tools”, 2) “No Major...
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