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How is hibernation supported, on machines with UEFI Secure Boot?
I've been learning about UEFI Secure Boot, which attempts to prevent "bootkits" by locking down the boot process so that only signed bootloaders and kernels can be loaded.
Hibernation seems like a ...
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How does UEFI Secure Boot prevent “evil twin” spoofing attacks?
I've been learning about UEFI Secure Boot. It is designed to prevent malware from infecting the boot process and overwriting the bootloader. It has hardware-level protections to ensure that only a ...
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What kind of hashing is generally used in log-in modules?
Do operating systems hash the log-in password?
What hash function is used in Windows XP, 7, 8,Linux Ubuntu, Debian, MAC Lion OS X ,...?
Where should I look to know these security considerations of an ...
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Are auto-mounting hard drives a security issue?
Why are hard drives mounted by default in Windows OS, while they aren't in Linux OS? Is that a security issue?
If your computer was hacked, can unmounted drives be considered clean?
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Is it safe to attach a potentially malicious hard drive to a Solaris machine?
We bring in hard drives from un-trusted sources and would like to ensure that they will not contain any harmful content.
What kind of risk is there for Solaris? As in, if Solaris is running, and I ...
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Sun ILOM / Out of band management security concerns
I would like to get some outside opinion on this if possible, although I do not know what to ask.
Sun ILOM is an Out-of-band management system. I understand it is a separate OS on the box that is ...
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How to disable Firewire in OpenBSD/Linux to prevent attacks through Firewire?
Since Firewire lacks security, allowing a plugged-in device to access host memory, it's a good thing to fully disable it. If we're not using the BIOS to disable the Firewire port then how could we do ...
