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What strategies can I use to negotiate security terms in vendor contracts for vendors in high geopolitical risk countries?

Please assume the following in responding: Data being passed to vendor is subject to data protection laws in the USA such as GLBA Data itself resides within the United States Switching vendors will ...
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How plausible are cyber attack attributions between states? [duplicate]

When an attack on IT systems of a state is discovered, often another state is publicly blamed for it within a few days. I wonder whether these attributions are plausible from a technical point of view....
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Making custom wordlists for languages besides English

I'm testing a site whose audience doesn't usually have English as their main language. When it comes to non-English, I consider there to be 3 groups The target language's alphabet is a subset of the ...
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Will my company’s VPN work internationally, and will it alert them or display as a security threat?

I work remotely and have to go to Europe for a few weeks in order to deal with a family emergency. I don’t want to explain the situation to my company and I know it won’t affect my work productivity. ...
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Making transactions only, or almost only, by QR codes

I have a OnePlus 6 smartphone and I recently opened a bank account in a bank which seems to me very innovative in the context going payment card (debit/credit) free (using only application and/or cash)...
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Protecting myself in Ukraine

I am a United States citizen planning a week-long trip to Ukraine. A friend advised me that Internet security is less-than-great there. What steps should I take to protect myself if I use public or ...
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Concern about potential of VPN access being restricted in Italy

Background: I work a remote employee in the US for a US based company. I log into our company's intranet via VPN to work every day. I also connect to multiple client networks via VPN (as well as using ...
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Is Apple’s latest encryption considered to be munitions grade?

According to U.S. Export and Import laws, any device that has a minimum level of encryption is considered as falling under munitions type laws. Does Apple’s latest OS contain that level? And if it ...
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Let users sign in with eIDs - do I need government authorisation? (scope: all nation-states) [closed]

I've decided to launch a crypto-basic income system. Crypto UBIs are pretty popular now. For me, it seems like an open nation-state ID should exist by now (2015). However, Mike Hearn, Bitcoin core-...
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What are the compliance requirements or standards for a non-US firm hosting personal data in the US?

I work for a head hunting company with offices in Canada and Asia. We migrated our custom built CRM system from our own servers hosted in Japan to an Amazon hosting service meaning that all our data ...
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Why is HTTPS seemingly so infrequently used internationally (Asia)?

I've recently had the privilege of doing some traveling internationally, and I noticed that (particularly in Asia) HTTPS is very infrequently used, even on government and educational websites where ...
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Corporate Domain-Joined PC Used in China [closed]

What would be the disadvantages of allowing a user to travel to China (business trip) using a domain-joined corporate Windows PC as opposed to a non-domain-joined PC?
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Is blocking a country's access to a website a good measure to avoid hackers from that country?

I am located in Venezuela right now, and for the whole weekend have been unable to access grubhub.com and seamless.com. Finally, I tried using the Tor Browser and got access. The same thing happened ...
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Will PGP signed email be blocked in China?

I generally sign all of my outgoing email with PGP. I don't usually encrypt it because most people I send mail to don't have a public key. Anyway, if I send an unencrypted message with a PGP signature ...
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Wiretapping requests to VPN providers [closed]

What are valid issuers of wiretapping requests aimed at VPN providers except the court of the provider's country? Is it possible that country in which jurisdiction VPN provider does not act will ...
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Why do so many cracking attempts originate from China?

I recently put a Linux server online and it didn't take long until I had the first attempts to brute-force the SSH login. It's not that I am worried about that - I trust the security of my server. But ...
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What are the security features of the proposed "secure email" from Brazil? [closed]

Brazil has announced that they will create a secure email alternative in light of NSA spy programs. The company Correios will be implementing the contract over the next year or so. What are the ...
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What can a web application developer do to protect user information from powerful adversaries like the NSA or China

Some well funded intelligence services with potentially untrustworthy employees intercept and store encrypted data for years, in hopes of cracking it with future technology. What can I do to make this ...
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Why should I use the VPN? [closed]

Does a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provide an encrypted connection from outside networks or from ISPs to the internal network?
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Precautions to be made while using Internet chat to prevent being hacked? [closed]

I have read many websites which state that, "We can hack into computers while chatting on the internet." What are the best precautions to be taken while chatting to prevent unauthorized access? I ...
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Best way to report a foreigner attacker's ip to authorities?

I have been under attack last week and I was able to trace down the attacker and get his IP address. The attacker was located in Germany but I live out of Europe? From your experience what is the ...
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password complexity policy for non "English" passwords

In an internationalized application, what is the best practice for a policy on complexity of passwords? I am not having luck searching for the answer. Wikipedia lists these items for password policy:...
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What actions should be taken by site according to Data Protection legislations?

Many countries have data protection legislation: Data Protection Directive in EU Data Protection Act 1998 in UK privacy laws in USA Web application may have registration form where fields for name, ...
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Encryption laws in India -- is it allowed to use ssh and VPN?

I have a very similar question to the one asked here (regarding Iran). However, I would like to use ssh and vpn while being in India. I found already this survey of cryptographic laws but I don't ...
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What regulations *require* multi-factor authentication?

What industries require multi-factor authentication? Please include the following information: Country Industry Regulation name Additional information as you see relevant. Some additional ...
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Encryption-Laws in Iran

According to this article Iran has criminalized the usage of encryption and VPNs. According to this blog post it is still possible to use SSH tunnels in Iran. For me SSH is encryption and thus ...
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What lawful interception standards are used outside Europe?

In Europe European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) define the standard requirements to handle a lawful interception. It's define all from the terminology and definition to the ...
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White list or black list sanitation for international input?

There seem to be so many ways to create nefarious input that white-listing what input is good usually feels like the safer, simpler option. For instance, one can fairly easily craft a white list ...
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What is the equivalent European organization of NIST, especially in the Security Computer Division?

What is the European counterpart organization to USA's NIST? I want to check the European best practices and guidelines on computer security. Does anyone know if this organization exists, and if ...
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What risk do International Domain Names (IDN) pose?

I understand that IDN's are basically a GUI display change for domains that have a prefix of "xn--". What should I advise companies do in regards to these domains? For example, should companies ...
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What International laws should one in the InfoSec industry we be aware of?

What InfoSec regulations should one be aware of when dealing with 'live' cross-border communications, or the offline transport of information?
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