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I've long been a fan of the secure two-factor token called 'Yubikey', details of which can found at yubico.com. The guys at Yubico have kindly generated a security module for the Drupal CMS to allow use of the Yubikey token. I've now installed and configured this module and so, this means that to log into this website we now need, not only our username and password but also access to the Yubikey registered on the site. The Yubikey acts like a USB keyboard so no drivers needed there.

 This potentially affects users of RSA's SecureID system

On March 17th this year, RSA Security's Executive chairman revealed that RSA had been the subject of a "persistent" attack and had suffered intrusion into the internal system for a significant length of time.

Zero-config Lightweight VPN Service named - VPNX

We're still working on productising (is that a word?) our beta zero config VPN service. We have now named the service VPNX (any feedback on the name would be interesting).

It's alarming to learn that the Obama administration is currently drafting a Bill that requires that 'backdoors' be put into all encryption systems to allow US law enforcement agencies access to encrypted communications, upon court order of course.

You may have noticed the number of vulnerabilities that Adobe's software appears to be suffering from these days. Not least of which is the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader.

Here's a Cisco tip that may be useful: