The command will move through a series of prompts. First, it will ask where you want to save the keys. Unless you are an expert, accept the default. This will create an “id_rsa” and an “id_rsa.pub” ...

As my 4 person company grows in both person count and server count (and I'm no longer the only core person accessing servers) I have become pretty confused on how to properly manage even my own SSH ...

I find myself hopping around from computer to computer occasionally - usually one that I haven't used before. I've got MobileMe syncing almost everything that I need (mail settings, bookmarks, and ...

In 1995, when I was a university student in Helsinki, I developed a security protocol to protect data-in-transit as it moved throughout our network. I named it the “secure shell,” or SSH for short.

In the never-ending fight against cybercrime, is your agency focused on strategy or on tactics? The federal government is under mandate to keep its own and its citizens’ data secure — that’s a given.

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears ...

GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys generated using a library that incorrectly created duplicate RSA keypairs. GitHub allows you to authenticate to their service without a user name and ...

Many companies are dangerously exposed to threats like the recently revealed Mask Advanced Persistent Threat because they don’t properly manage the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic keys used to ...