Access control based on user, group, or global access.
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What is the difference between RBAC and DAC/ACL?
What are the benefits of each, and when should I choose one over the other? Are there situations where these should be merged?
Do you have examples of common usages?
And what about MAC, where ...
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Is hacking legal when a friend allows you to attempt to hack their system?
So I've begun learning to penetration test and I want to try it on a real system, (apart from my own), and so I have asked a friend if I can hack their computer. He is as interested as I am on the ...
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Sensitive information was placed in a publicly accessible folder. Who is responsible and how to proceed?
Background
We have an IT staff who manages our server and a web developer who is not on the IT staff and has no root access to the server. All involved do very high quality work and I do not consider ...