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Security comparisons between two approaches: how to distinguish FUD from Substance? [closed]
Background:
WorkerB and Tymac were discussing the pros-and-cons of using two different alternatives for extending a web content management system that is used in their company.
Alternative one ...
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Does Disabling Right Click In Windows Explorer Do Anything?
I am at a student at a school which blocks the right click in Windows Explorer and the desktop, as well as on the taskbar. I don't exactly understand why they do this, since most of the commands on ...
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Should the requirement of admin privileges be extended?
Seeing this comic from xkcd.com made me thinking:
Is extending the requirement of admin privileges to things such as connecting to the internet, running the web browser, reading browser and other ...
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When logging into a web page what exactly happens when a user types the wrong password?
I have two related questions as to what happens when a user tries to log in to a website
If the entered password is wrong what should happen?
I have two ideas:
Redirect to a page saying "wrong ...
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How to achieve interactive shell attack?
Usually when a person gets a shell by attacking some vulnerabilities, what a person gets is non-interactive shell.
So when I call FTP interactive client, shell fails.
Is there any way I can do ...
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Development-led security vs administration-led security in a software product?
There are cases where you have the opportunity, as a developer, to enforce stricter security features and protections on a software, though they could very well be managed at an environmental level ...
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User Account Notification under Windows useful at all?
IMHO the 'screen dimming'-and-displaying-of-warning-window feature (?) in Windows is extremely annoying, since I routinely run software that does require the permission to modify a lot of things. I ...
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How to know the windows security dialog asking for username password is genuine?
I recently faced one issue. It appeared my outlook launched a dialog saying it needed password. It looked like this
I noticed the "->" character in the domain name which usually it auto fills. Also ...
