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NASA's move to the cloud saves $1 million a year. The CIO of NASA, the U.S. space agency, said on Friday that her organization estimates that it's saved almost a million dollars over the year after it moved several of its applications to the cloud. Linda Cureton wrote in a blog post that NASA moved some of its enterprise infrastructure to Amazon Web Services after setting out to become more efficient and improve economies of scale, integration, goal alignment, security, oversight, and accountability.

"This cloud-based model supports a wide variety of web applications and sites using an interoperable, standards-based, and secure environment while providing almost a million dollars in cost savings each year," she wrote. That's not a decision taken lightly for a government agency. She also shared recent cloud-based ventures for NASA: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory uploaded 250,000 pictures of Mars onto a Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform. The goal: engage the American people in space exploration. TrickedOutTimeline - Create the coolest Facebook Timelines, Cover Photos and Profile Photos, and wow your friends!

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Indeed, a flash drive is like a digital Swiss Army knife, able to perform a circus tent’s worth of amazing feats. That single pinky-size gizmo can lock down a PC, store important passwords (safely, of course), run an entire operating system, and more. Turns out your little drive is kind of a big deal. Before you get started, however, make sure to take the property security precautions. Flash drives are especially susceptible to viruses and other malware, so make sure your desktop security software supports external drives, and set it to auto-scan any drive you plug in.

Likewise, consider installing a program like Rohos Mini Drive, which creates a password-protected partition on the drive. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 16 ultimate SSH hacks. March 23, 2012, 11:32 AM — So you think you know OpenSSH inside and out? Test your chops against this hit parade of 16 expert tips and tricks, from identifying monkey-in-the-middle attacks to road warrior security to attaching remote screen sessions. Follow the countdown to the all-time best OpenSSH command!

[ Running SSH on a non-standard port ] SSH tips #16-14:Detecting MITM attacks When you log into a remote computer for the first time, you are asked if you want to accept the remote host's public key. . $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C newserver -f .ssh/newkey Generating public/private rsa key pair. SSH tip #16: Retrieve the fingerprint and randomart image of an SSH key If you make a copy of this when you create new encryption keys, then you can fetch a key's fingerprint and randomart image anytime to compare and make sure they have not changed: $ ssh-keygen -lvf keyname SSH tip #15: View all fingerprints and randomart images in known_hosts And you can see all of them in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file:

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