Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “security”

CUDA/OpenCL implementations of password crackers can leverage the massive amount of parallelism available in GPUs, peaking at billions of candidate passwords a second. You can literally test all lowercase, alphabetic passwords which are ≤7 characters in less than 2 seconds. And you can now rent the hardware which makes this possible to the tune of less than $3/hour.

AutomatingOSINT.com - Learn How to Automate OSINT Collection

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This is the only course, literally - you can’t get it anywhere else, that teaches you how to write code to automatically extract and analyze data from the web and social media. Join students from around the world from law enforcement, journalism, information security and more.

How many secrets do you have?

github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017-02-08.md

This is a quick post, ruminating on the difference between two flavors of differential privacy in common use. I'm a fan of one, and the other weirds me out a bit. I think I have started to get a handle on why that is.

In Response to Guardian’s Irresponsible Reporting on WhatsApp: A Plea for Responsible and Contextualized Reporting on User Security | technosociology

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TOR Node List

dan.me.uk/tornodes

Displays a full TOR node list no more than one hour old. Includes detailed information in script-readable format

Security: Redux: compromising Linux using... SNES Ricoh 5A22 processor opcodes?!

scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html

The limitations of Android N Encryption

blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption/

Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

Crypto 101

crypto101.io/

gchq/BoilingFrogs: GCHQ's internal Boiling Frogs research paper on software development and organisational change in the face of disruption #boilingfrogs

github.com/gchq/BoilingFrogs

The pace of disruptive change is increasing, from the rise of cloud technology, social business, the Internet of Things and others. We feel it as much as other government departments and so we offer this internal research paper publicly, not to present policy or guidelines, but to stimulate debate.

CyberChef

gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know – Naked Security

nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/

What is Differential Privacy? – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/15/what-is-differential-privacy/

Yesterday at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced a series of new security and privacy features, including one feature that's drawn a bit of attention -- and confusion. Specifically, Apple announced that they will be using a technique called "Differential Privacy" (henceforth: DP) to improve the privacy of their data collection practices. The reaction to this…