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TLS 1.3 (with AEAD) and TLS 1.2 cipher suites demystified: how to pick your ciphers wisely

Cloud Insidr 2018-05-11 3 Comments

TLS 1.3 (with AEAD) and TLS 1.2 cipher suites demystified: how to pick your ciphers wisely

Until the day TLS 1.3 becomes widely supported, web servers must rely on a fallback to TLS 1.2 with correctly configured server directives and strong cipher suites. Pick the wrong settings and you declare an open season on your server.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: authentication, cipher suites, Diffie-Hellman, encryption, HMAC, HTTPS, OpenSSL, RSA, TLS, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3

KVM set to replace the Xen hypervisor in AWS EC2 on the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas

Cloud Insidr 2017-11-09 Leave a Comment

KVM set to replace the Xen hypervisor in AWS EC2 on the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas

During the upcoming AWS re:INVENT 2017 conference in Las Vegas (Nov. 27th – Dec. 1st), Amazon is going to present a major change to its cloud offering, one with enormous ramifications! Yes, you read that right—and yes, that exclamation mark is fully justified.

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Filed Under: cloud, edge and everything in between, Uncategorized Tagged With: AWS, AWS EC2, EC2, Google, IBM, KVM, KVM Hypervisor, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure

A quick introduction to SSL/TLS encryption: understanding certificates and key pairs

Cloud Insidr 2017-10-20 1 Comment

A quick introduction to SSL/TLS encryption: understanding certificates and key pairs

Confused about SSL/TLS certificates? Here is a quick and dirty introduction to SSL/TLS encryption.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: encryption, SSL, TLS

IBM’s China connection and the betrayal of America: how Chinese government hackers manage to remain undetectable

Cloud Insidr 2017-01-01 Leave a Comment

IBM’s China connection and the betrayal of America: how Chinese government hackers manage to remain undetectable

“You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way. Because I’ll tell you what: No computer is safe (…) I don’t care what they say.”

President-Elect Donald Trump

 

In the waning days of the fading Obama presidency, plenty of questions surfaced about Russia’s involvement with the hacks of the DNC and election systems. Electronic evidence can be easily manipulated.

There is more to it than just electronic evidence.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, industries, industry analysis, news, Uncategorized Tagged With: China, cryptography, cyber defense, cybersecurity, hacking, IBM, Intel, intrusion detection

How to create OpenSSH keys on a Windows desktop for remote access to a Linux server with PuTTY Key Generator

Cloud Insidr 2016-11-27 5 Comments

How to create OpenSSH keys on a Windows desktop for remote access to a Linux server with PuTTY Key Generator

When using authentication based on keys (as opposed to a password), you have to create the key pair—a private key and a public key—on your local machine, then transfer the public key to the server and install it there. Here is how to do this on a Windows desktop for remote access to a Linux server.

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Filed Under: cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, Uncategorized Tagged With: OpenSSH, PuTTY

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