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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Halkyn Security / Archives for August 2011

Testing for Insecure Passwords

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:26 August 2011
  • Post category:Security/Security Education and Awareness

Despite recent popular opinion and some well publicised hacks involving them, passwords are not intrinsically weak. When used properly, they are a perfectly good, single factor, method of authentication. The important part…

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Public Key Encryption with GnuPG

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:22 August 2011
  • Post category:Security/Security Education and Awareness

One of the most overlooked risks of using the internet is the fact that most of the time your data is as private as the writing on the back of…

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Malicious Spam on the Rise

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:17 August 2011
  • Post category:Security/Security News

Research carried out by two security companies has provided information that most people will have already recognised - in the last week there has been a significant increase in spam…

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Passwords and IT Security

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:13 August 2011
  • Post category:Downloads/Security/Security Education and Awareness

Passwords are frequently thought of as an "outdated" method of security and numerous product vendors will tell you how they offer a much better solution that kind of works like…

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Schools breach data protection rules

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:8 August 2011
  • Post category:Security/Security Risk Management

Today the Information Commissioner's Office announced a data protection act breach at the Bay House School in Hampshire which placed data belonging to nearly 20,000 people at risk. Reading the…

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Burglary leads to bomb threat

  • Post author:Halkyn Security
  • Post published:3 August 2011
  • Post category:Security

In a situation resembling a variation on tiger kidnapping, there is news today of a situation in Australia where a woman spent 10 hours with a suspected explosive device strapped…

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