How did VW trick the EPA?
Over the last week we've learnt that VW perpetrated a massive fraud on the US Environmental Protection Agency, and on other government agencies world-wide. It seems that 11 million VW…
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The dangers of cloud storage part 2
A year ago, we wrote a blog post on the dangers of cloud storage, primarily focusing on privacy issues. This post was motivated by the publicity associated with leaked celebrity…
Remote hacking of vehicles a reality
The latest report of how hackers were able to remotely control a Jeep Cherokee is rather frightening. In their rush to Internet-enable their vehicles, some manufacturers appear to have neglected…
SFTP Public Key Authentication
Using SFTP public key authentication is a great step towards securing your sftp server. In this article, I'll run through our step-by-step instructions for getting SFTP public key authentication working…
How to FTP through a firewall
Firewalls present challenges for users of FTP and (particularly) FTPS. The root cause of the problem is that a single session using these protocols requires more than one socket connection.…
The dangers of cloud storage
Apple's iCloud storage service has been in the news lately. Apparently, numerous celebrities have uploaded nude "selfies" to iCloud and a hacker has managed to gain access and leaked the…
Acoustic Cryptanalysis
This is amazing and scary - computers often emit high pitched sounds, and these sounds can actually leak security-sensitive details about what your computer is doing. In particular, RSA decryption…
The NSA's crypto "breakthrough"
An interesting article on people's guesses about what the NSA is capable of, in the Economist, here.
Independent reviews of EDT software
Our software is listed in many software directories around the web. We are often asked for backlinks from these directories, but usually don't respond since these requests usually come from…
CompleteFTP marches onward with 4.0
CompleteFTP 4.0 has now been released, and has added some significant new features (mainly in the Professional Edition). Disk and bandwidth quotas mean that administrators have more control over users'…