Puttyq (this blog) has been a personal place to share ideas, capture workings and vent frustrations for almost 12 years, and after a long silence I have decided to bring it back to life. In 2015 i went through a change of roles and focus when I took on the challenge of becoming the security […]
After all the recent activity around TrueCrypt and it’s disappearance from the web, there has been a lot of speculation on why this happened, but more importantly – what’s will replace it. The community responded by trying salvage TrueCrypt. Thomas Bruderer and Jos Doekbrijder started truecrypt.ch, with the purpose to “organize a future” for TrueCrypt. […]
Server hardening is the process of enhancing the security of a server operating system through a variety of controls and technical configuration settings which results in a more secure server operating environment. Over the past few years I have been involved in various deployments that required a wide range of security and vulnerability management controls to […]
Update: TrueCrypt is Dead, Long Live TrueCrypt! Although no new news have come out of truecrypt.org there has been much speculation and commenting on the disappearance of TrueCrypt. Some speculation states the the original message on the TrueCrypt website itself was an indication that the NSA now controls the product in some way. See pastebin article. The […]
