When's a password good or bad?

A reasonable article on when good passwords don't matter.

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Another story on the ability to crack 'good' passwords
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NSA and compromised networks

Apparently the NSA think that their own networks can't be considered clean and security and take the appropriate actions based on that position including increased audit, new network sensors and standardisation.

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Mounting a dd image

Interesting article on how to mount a dd image from a backup or when a hard drive is failing or copied

http://rackerhacker.com/2010/12/14/mounting-a-raw-partition-file-made-with-dd-or-dd_rescue-in-linux/

Hashing tool

New Hashing tool http://secure1st.com/