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Posts made to the Nigel Stanley blog during January 2010
22 January, 2010: Common passwords 123456 and qwerty finally exposed
A report by database security firm Imperva has highlighted the most common consumer passwords. The study was based on an analysis of 32 million...
19 January, 2010: Cracking a 768-bit RSA key
As computing power has increased, the available horsepower to brute force crack RSA algorithms has grown as well. The most recent announcement, in...
18 January, 2010: ICO Grows some Teeth
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is finally going to get some teeth to deal with data abuses
15 January, 2010: Mobile Phone Secret codes being hacked
The end of 2009 and the first couple of weeks of 2010 has seen the world of cryptography, and more specifically data encryption, thrust into the...
15 January, 2010: DDOS without the D. Are we doomed then?
Apparently a hacker has found a way of initiating a DDOS attack without using distributed systems
13 January, 2010: Removable media - the next encryption frontier?
People are slowly getting their heads around full disk data encryption, but now the focus needs to move onto removable devices. As data proliferates,...