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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
An interesting article on people's guesses about what the NSA is capable of, in the Economist, here.
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 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'…