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Cyber Security

All Things Cyber…

The whole idea of hacking, cyber security, and digital crookery can often seem very abstract and dull. That’s why I was excited recently to discover a site that makes these topics less abstract by displaying a real-time visualization of cyber attacks as they happen. The visualizer notes the source of …

Summer Properties, Hashes, and Cyber Security

Here is a gem of a program: Summer Properties. This program adds a new tab to the the File Properties dialog in Windows. Inside this tab are the MD5 and SHA1 hash codes (and two others). So what is a hash–and what does MD5 mean? And what are these codes …