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Added at 11/29/2024 by Frank Hissen
Cyber Security Training Excerpt: Quishing – Phishing using QR Codes
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Added at 09/16/2024 by Frank Hissen
Online training or Intranet-based Learning Management Systems (LMS) are two approaches to implement regular and accountable IT security awareness training for employees. This is true for companies of all sizes and all departments. One can find reliable, comprehensive courses for general Computer, Internet and E-Mail users as well as developers or project managers. Using e-learning approaches offers executives to monitor and document the learning progress and success of their employees easily and thus prove in security audits that adequate IT and information security awareness training for employees has been conducted.
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Added at 09/11/2024 by Frank Hissen
E-Mail Security online video lecture for Employees - Learn what to look out for when using E-Mails. This is a full lecture that is part of the Online Training Course "IT Security Awareness for Employees and Individuals - The pragmatic complete Guide to Internet and Computer Security".
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Added at 08/08/2024 by Frank Hissen
Online Security Courses and more time for security in software development projects as one step into the right direction. Security has to be implemented from the beginning. Project managers have to provide enough development time on non-functional features or make security a functional feature.
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Added at 02/04/2023 by Frank Hissen
Using CSV files is a daily routine for many people who have to accomplish a - fully automatic or semiautomatic - data exchange between different IT systems. CSV files are not the only solution path, but are very common. This concerns for instance online and e-commerce businesses which import the current orders from eBay into their own ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) or the accounting when exporting tax data to the tax office.
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Added at 09/20/2022 by Frank Hissen
HissenIT's CrococryptFile fully supports Windows 11 including crypto suites. Besides classical end-user password-based encryption of files and folders, also the Windows Keystore using certificate tokens can be used. Hence, existing PKI infrastructure components can be used to encrypt file archives quickly also in business groups.
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Added at 11/03/2021 by Frank Hissen
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Added at 12/28/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 12/21/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 12/15/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 12/08/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 12/01/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 11/27/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 11/20/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 11/14/2020 by Frank Hissen
We can read about numerous successful attacks on well-known web applications on a weekly basis. Reason enough to study the background of "Web Application Security" of custom-made / self-developed applications - no matter if these are used only internally or with public access.
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Added at 06/09/2019 by Frank Hissen
IT Security Expert and Computer Scientist Frank Hissen talking about cryptography and how cryptography helps to protect our data security during our private and professional everyday life.
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Added at 06/03/2019 by Frank Hissen
Internet connections are no direct lines. Every intermediary component holds full access to your Internet traffic. That means: read, alter, redirect, discard. Or put another way: manipulate, record, log, render unusable.
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Added at 03/21/2018 by Frank Hissen
An "IT security researcher" recently engaged attention on a seemingly older, known weakness in Mozilla's password managers of Firefox and Thunderbird. Core problem is the way of dealing with the master password (keyword: secure password hashing). We recommend for years to pay close attention - when choosing an encryption software - which password hashing procedure is used. Otherwise, you eventually have no real data encryption at all. We try to provide some clear background information.
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Added at 09/18/2016 by Frank Hissen
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Our Whitepaper/Guideline is now also available as e-book for Amazon's Kindle (English/German).
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Added at 05/23/2016 by Frank Hissen
Despite many accepted IT security standards, many IT projects fail at IT security. What needs to be considered, what mistakes and pitfalls to avoid.
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Added at 11/02/2015 by Frank Hissen
Plaintext passwords should not be used anymore. You are probably using a web shop software framework that takes already care of this. Most application frameworks in the world do not use plain passwords anymore but password hashes instead.
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Added at 10/07/2015 by Frank Hissen
Key wrapping is a simple technique in cryptography that is used in almost all common encryption technologies.
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Added at 10/06/2015 by Frank Hissen
Recently, I received the question if it would not be dangerous, when the source code for an encryption software is publicly available. An answer...
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Added at 07/02/2015 by Frank Hissen
Today, we released CrococryptFile 1.3 as free download. This version includes a new crypto suite: "cloaked" archives. This kind of suite encrypts archives without headers. What this exactly means, we explain in the following.
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Added at 06/15/2015 by Frank Hissen
This article is about the differences of the encryption schemes between a container and a file-by-file encryption solution and the resulting privacy implications. At the end, you will see that it is also a matter of taste and application context.
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This blog is written by Frank Hissen (Computer Scientist). The majority of posts is about HissenIT, new software and other topics within the areas of software development and IT security.
