Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

I regularly log in remotely to machines on my local area network. To do that, I use secure shell (SSH). I often default to the terminal but sometimes I prefer a graphical user interface (GUI) app that ...

Sometime around the start of 1995, an unknown person planted a password sniffer on the network backbone of Finland’s Helsinki University of Technology (now known as Aalto University). Once in place, ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally ...

SSH is an abbreviation for Secure Shell. It allows you to access remote servers securely. It secures your data by encrypting it so that only authorized users can access it. PuTTy is one of the oldest ...