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How do I deal with companies that call and ask for personal information?
Several times I get a phone call from a company- my bank, utility companies etc. Many times they are just cold calling me, but once or twice they were calling for legitimate reasons (ie, something to ...
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How to suspend a user from my website and prevent them from creating a second account?
I am an outsourcing person, not a programmer. My website is a shopping website (think eBay). My website will need a user suspension feature, in case a user violates the terms and conditions. The ...
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Unknown Service Identification
How can one identify a service running on a non-standard port? I'm not talking about services like webserver or FTP since nmap can do that without any problems. I'm talking about services that are not ...
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How to verify that someone is who they say they are online?
I am working on an online job application web app and the question has come up about how we will verify that someone submitting an application is who they say they are.
For example, we don't want ...
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Identify an HTTP scanner from some HTTP headers
My personal Apache server occasionally gets some pretty obvious scans for vulnerabilities. The client that does the scanning does GET HTTP/1.1 methods on a variety of URLs, and uses a variety of ...
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What are the risk tradeoffs of all-in-one “smart” IDs vs. using a separate hardware authenticator?
In many organizations these days, employee IDs are very mutli-functional. They can serve as:
Visual identitiy verification. (Including employee photo, name, ID number, and other details on the ...
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Large lan party : How to identify the users on the network?
I would like to know what are the good way to identify users on a large lan party when you manage network ?
I had the idea to make the users register them self at a desk, they give us Firstname, ...
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Difference between authentication and identification [Crypto and Security perspective]
I am always confused by the way the word authentication is used in security literature (i.e., outside the crypto realm). Most of the time I understand that they are actually implying identification.
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How does sound signature recognition work and how to override it?
Today a lot of websites that allow the upload of media content are implementing automatic sound signature checks to prevent the illegal distribution of videos containing copyrighted content.
How ...
