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TrueCrypt disappears

Quite abruptly, the TrueCrypt disk encryption tool is no more. The announcement says that the tool is no longer secure and should not be used. The website provides a heavily modified version of TrueCrypt (7.2) that allows one to decrypt the data and export it from a TrueCrypt volume. Many questions are asked around what ...

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SAMATE Reference Dataset

Through theĀ  news we can become alerted to many interesting things and one of the recent useful bits is the SAMATE Reference Dataset built by NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation project. Should you need information on common vulnerabilities test cases, the database has more than 80,000 test cases by now. From the project ...

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