Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), HTTPS (web browser access over Secure Socket Layers) and even RSYNC over SSH (a rapid, low bandwidth way to "sync"). [Tagged: textdrive security storage backup ]

Security architecture for hypervisors (sHype), integrated into Xen - IBM's TJ Watson Research Center has designed and developed a security architecture for hypervisors (called sHype). sHype is based on mandatory access controls (MAC). It allows Xen to use access rules (formal policy) to control both the sharing of virtual resources as well as the information flow between domains. It is modeled after the Flask security architecture as implemented in SELinux. [Tagged: sHype selinux mac acl xen ]

• VPNs and Public Key Infrastructure -- article focuses on VPN tunneling, also summarize the set of technologies that form a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Deploying a VPN with PKI -- tutorial implements a certificate-based security infrastructure using OpenSSL and uses this to secure both OpenVPN client and server endpoints

I like Novell and NetWare. Solid, secure OS. Pretty popular in Europe and almost unknown in Japan :/ Understanding the Role of Identification and Authentication in NetWare 4

Attacking and repairing the WinZip "Advanced Encryption" scheme -- ...We exhibit several attacks against WinZip's new encryption method, dubbed "AE-2" or "Advanced Encryption, version two." We then discuss secure alternatives....

Schneier on Security - A weblog covering security and security technology.. Who is Bruce Schneier? Just some keywords: Crypto-Gram, "Applied Cryptography", "Secrets & Lies" ;)

Tor: an anonymizing overlay network for TCP -- a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system that protects TCP streams: web browsing, instant messaging, irc, ssh, etc.. They have a new version release - tor-0.0.8.tar.gz.

After recently discovered PuTTY and PSCP multiple vulnerabilities, do not forget to update to putty 0.55. Still putty is my favorite ssh client.