Rory McCune

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bio	website	scotsts.com
	location	Scotland, United Kingdom
	age	39
visits	member for	2 years, 6 months
	seen	3 hours ago
stats	profile views	517

I'm an IT Security professional based in Scotland. I've been in IT Security for over 13 years now, with the last eight focusing on penetration testing/ethical hacking.

Currently director at a Scotland based Security Testing consultancy called ScotSTS

	14,425 reputation	bio	website	scotsts.com	visits	member for	2 years, 6 months
22361 badges		location	Scotland, United Kingdom		seen	3 hours ago

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247 Answers

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57	VP of IT claims he unhashed 100% of all 16k employees' PWs. Is he lying to us?
57	How to securely hash passwords?
35	Why block outgoing network traffic with a firewall?
29	What tools are available to assess the security of a web application?
18	The valid role of obscurity

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+10	Malicious Links that Respond to Browsers but not curl or wget
+30	Is a full backup the quickest or the longest on restoring
+10	How to prevent restrict access to a web application to authorized devices only?
+10	How can I verify the identity of a US \| UK -based person and prevent fake identities from being accepted?

8 Questions

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31	What's the impact of disclosing the front-face of a credit or debit card?
26	iOS Encryption Details
16	Pitfalls of using OAuth for mobile Applications
16	In what scenarios is relying on source IP address as a security control acceptable/unacceptable?
16	Secure Development costs

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227 passwords × 23	148 web-application × 37
213 appsec × 30	127 hash × 4
189 network × 34	90 authentication × 18
163 penetration-test × 27	87 ssl × 16
158 cryptography × 10	87 firewalls × 14

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Stack Overflow	251 rep	17
Area 51	206 rep	5
Programmers	179 rep	2

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