Ars Technica

Making SSH Private keys more secure

which talks about beefing up the security of the passphrase of your SSH private key. The article (as I understand it) discusses that by default, your SSH private key passphrase is essentially just a ...
Ars Technica

Help with SSH and public/private keys

I have SSH working between my PC when it runs Win2k and my Linux server.<BR><BR>I rebooted the client into Mandrake 9.1 to get SSH working so I can use CVS under Linux as well.<BR><BR>I have my ~/.ssh ...
PC World

OpenSSH patches information leak that could expose private SSH keys

If you’re connecting to servers over the secure shell (SSH) protocol using an OpenSSH client, you should update it immediately. The latest version patches a flaw that could allow rogue or compromised ...
AppleInsider

How to use SSH for secure connections in macOS

The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...
Computerworld

Millions of embedded devices use the same hard-coded SSH and TLS private keys

Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found. By ...
TechRepublic

How to use Termius, one of the best SSH connection managers on the market

How to use Termius, one of the best SSH connection managers on the market Your email has been sent The Termius client allows you to create SSH connections with ease and even use SSH key authentication ...
techtimes

GitHub's RSA SSH Private Key Leaks! Was It a Breach?

GitHub's RSA SSH private key was accidentally leaked to the public, as confirmed by the code hosting platform's CEO, Mike Hanley. An engineer from the Israeli company "Commun.it" uses his expertise in ...
Bleeping Computer

Attackers Start Scans for SSH Keys After Report on Lack of SSH Security Controls

Crooks are mass-scanning online sites for directories containing SSH private keys so they can break into websites with any accidentally exposed credentials. SSH authentication can work via the classic ...
Tidbits

Upgrade Your File Transfer Security with Encryption Keys

One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub.com rotates its exposed private SSH key

GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository. The software development and version control service says, the ...
TechRepublic

How to generate SSH keys in OpenSSH for Windows 10

How to generate SSH keys in OpenSSH for Windows 10 Your email has been sent The use of OpenSSH is ubiquitous with secured access to client devices over a network. The purpose of SSH is ...