Collaborate Disseminate
Let’s say you cat /dev/random or /dev/urandom all day from boot to system shutdown, either redirecting the output to a file, or just catting it (in a terminal, or whatever) doesn’t matter. Is this insecure, or a bad idea? If so, why?
Revea… Continue reading Is it bad to reveal random bytes from a system?
How does Linux know if a new password is a "wrapped" version of an old password?
(or, the process of creating a new password) know "certain" parts of one’s password?
Let’s say I have the password abcEFGH123321 and I set… Continue reading How does Linux know if a new password is a "wrapped" version of a old one?
Introduction
Stuxnet for those who don’t know: is a worm that exploited 0days, which – for the sole purpose to disrupt Iran’s Nuclear power program.
Few, don’t know about another malware, which appeared way earlier than StuXNet. – Fanny.bm… Continue reading Was fanny.bmp the recon part of StuXNet’s operation? (since it was before StuXnet & is nearly identical in parts of code to StuXNet) [closed]
Does a TPM replace the default device’s security, or add to it?
I will try to re formulate it into 2 questions, just to explain what my question is, since I am not very good at English writing.
If we take randomness as a example:
Does th… Continue reading Does a TPM replace the default device’s security, or add to it?