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Sending data form registration forms

I understand that sending data from the user to the server, unencrypted, is a bad practice. That is logical. So how do I encrypt 'userside' and send the data to the server in encrypted form? Can ...
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Protect database resources from fake data inputs via web forms

Scenario: I'm working on a project that needs to accept large amounts of data (customer data) from its users. So it can be normal to have a user trying to add 10,000 or 100,000 records at a time. In ...
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Potential insecurity in not sanitizing variables before INSERT with prepared statement in PDO

I use PDO with prepared statement when connecting to my database, and I do this because it is considered a safe way to do so, but one thing I could not help but to wonder was, can submitted data from ...
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How do I protect user data at rest?

I want to encrypt the username, email, and password fields in the database AND encrypt user files at rest. How can I do this? I am aware of software such as Gazzang and since there is not cost ...
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Is this a safe way to connect to a server

I am using a software to backup my website .sql data every 3 days and it connects simply to the server logs in and downloads the .sql file to my computer. While its downloading the connection is not ...
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Encrypting IP addresses in a MySQL database

I'd like to encrypt IP addresses in my MySQL database, with the following constraints: Does not need to be resistant to attackers that can execute queries. Must be resistant to attackers that have ...
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A proposal for Data Transmission and Password Encryption [closed]

I need to implement a sensitive data protection scheme which can meet the requirements on secure data transmission, protection and storage, assuming mutually trusted third party is not available, that ...
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5answers
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Mysql - two-way encryption of sensitive data (email addresses) outside of Apache, PHP and MySQL

We store user email addresses in our database, like many other websites. While we do take pride in the security measures in place, sometimes "just enough" is just not enough. We've begun looking into ...
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Does mysql_escape_string have any security vulnerabilities if all tables using Latin1 encoding?

I have heard that the PHP function mysql_escape_string has security vulnerabilities related to mult-byte characters. Are there any vulnerabilities if all tables are using Latin1 encoding?