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If you use Truecrypt, migrate to Veracrypt

Dave Farquhar security October 12, 2015July 14, 2017Privilege escalation, TrueCrypt

I’m playing catch-up with this one, but if you’ve been relying on the quasi-open source Truecrypt encryption solution, you need to migrate to Veracrypt as quickly as possible.

For some reason, it doesn’t seem to be common knowledge that Veracrypt is derived from Truecrypt and is, for all intents and purposes, the successor to Truecrypt.

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.

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Retracing the Home Depot attackers’ steps

Dave Farquhar security November 7, 2014November 6, 2014breach, home depot, malware, Patch Tuesday, Privilege escalation, vulnerability

New details emerged on the Home Depot attack that left 56 million consumers with compromised credit cards. The interesting thing in the new details is that it could have been much worse, but maybe not for reasons immediately obvious.

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