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KeePass Passwort-Speicher Einführung
Eine der häufigsten Fragen bzw. Tipps, die ich meinen Bekannten gebe, ist: Benutzt sichere Passwörter! Am besten noch verschiedene für alle Services, also Dienste/Homepages/E-Mail/etc. im Internet und...
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Password Generator Options for KeePass
This is a short post in which I show the options I am using when generating random passwords with the Password Generator that ships with the password safe KeePass. The character set should be as big as...
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Password Strength/Entropy: Characters vs. Words
This is a mathematical post which is related to the xkcd 936 comic about password strength. The central question is: What is better for passwords? A password containing a few random characters or a...
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Sichere Passwörter erzeugen & merken
Wie dem auch sei: Wir kommen nicht um die Benutzung von Passwörtern herum und es ist nach wie vor wichtig, sichere (= komplexe) Passwörter zu verwenden. Dabei ist es vor allem schwierig, einen...
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Passphrase Generation Tools
If you want to create random passphrases based on certain wordlists, a tool that generates these passphrases should be used rather than generating them yourself. Here comes an introduction to four...
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Password Policies – Appropriate Security Techniques
How are passwords stolen? What are common password flaws? What are the security techniques to enhance the security of passwords respectively the security of the login-services? What authentication...
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FortiGate 2-Factor Authentication via SMS
Two-factor authentication is quite common these days. That’s good. Many service providers offer a second authentication before entering their systems. Beside hardware tokens or code generator apps, the...
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File Blocking Shootout – Palo Alto vs. Fortinet
We needed to configure the Internet-facing firewall for a customer to block encrypted files such as protected PDF, ZIP, or Microsoft Office documents. We tested it with two next-generation firewalls,...
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Passwords vs. Private Keys
It is widely believed that public/private keys or certificates are “more secure” than passwords. E.g., an SSH login via key rather than using a password. Or a site-to-site VPN with certificate...
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Intro to NetworkMiner
This is a guest blogpost by Erik Hjelmvik, an expert in network forensics and network security monitoring at NETRESEC. Wireshark is the default goto tool for analyzing captured network traffic for most...
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