Rory McCune

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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


245 Answers

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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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What should a security audit report include?
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Why do people tell me not to use VLANs for security?
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New XSS cheatsheet?
14
Servers for penetration testing
14
Where can I find good dictionaries for dictionary attacks?
13
I have a client that is worried about DDOS attacks on their site, and they want penetration testing. Will that help?
13
How feasible is it for a CA to be hacked? Which default trusted root certificates should I remove?
13
How secure is TeamViewer for simple remote support?
13
What is the best option for setting up a several sites supporting SSL on the same IP?
12
How should I determine if an application transmits my credentials securely?
12
How do some sites (e.g. online banks) only ask for specific characters from a password without storing it as plaintext?
11
How can I protect my internet-connected devices from discovery by Shodan?
11
How to block or detect user setting up their own personal wifi AP in our LAN?
11
How does preventing automatic download of pictures help to protect my privacy?
11
Prevent acccess to the C drive on Windows systems
11
which site do you use to view details of vulnerabilities?
10
What are the security threats of zip file uploads and what preventive actions should be taken?
10
Are jailbroken iPhones an enterprise security risk?
10
What is the difference between a penetration test and a vulnerability assessment?
10
Vulnerable OS's?
10
How long should the password be?
9
Does signing out of a website ensure no-one can cookie hack?
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Are some uncommon TCP ports scanned less than others?
9
Using password hash as session ID?
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What are the security risks of letting the users upload content to my site?
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