Top new questions this week:
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Update (April 15): The forked repo and the user do not exist any more.
Yesterday, one of my GitHub projects was forked and there is a suspicious commit on the fork of the repo. As you can see from the ...
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I've been watching videos of scammers being tricked. Frequently, the scammer makes their scam victim install some weird "remote desktop" program claimed to be for tech support purposes. ...
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I was wondering that, when a hacker is trying to hack a Wi-Fi network, he/she would try to capture a handshake and then try to decrypt it, whereas when you want to log in to your Wi-Fi access point, ...
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I have implemented an authentication system which works like this:
Upon successful login, the server takes the username of client and encrypts it with AES-256.
This ciphertext is stored in the ...
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I know that my ISP can detect when I am using a VPN, but can it see which protocol I am using?
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I bought a Galaxy S20 Fe, logged my LastPass in it and all of my accounts (google, twitter, etc).
Now it has a malfunction and I'm going to have to send it back to get my money back.
When I factory ...
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Ctrl+Alt+Del is a secure attention sequence (Microsoft) (or secure attention key (Wikipedia), but it's more a Linux term).
As we can read,
A key sequence that begins the process of logging on or off. ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Why is Ctrl+Alt+Del required at login on certain Windows systems (I have not seen it elsewhere, but contradict me if I'm wrong) before the password can be typed in? From a usability point of view, it'...
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How accurate is this XKCD comic from August 10, 2011?
I've always been an advocate of long rather than complex passwords, but most security people (at least the ones that I've talked to) are against ...
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I've been playing around with different login forms online lately to see how they work. One of them was the Facebook login form. When I logged out of my account my email and password were ...
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I know there are many discussions on salted hashes, and I understand that the purpose is to make it impossible to build a rainbow table of all possible hashes (generally up to 7 characters).
My ...
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I need to explain SQL injection to someone without technical training or experience. Can you suggest any approaches that have worked well?
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Whenever I open the Google Maps app on my Android mobile phone, Google always seems to know my location, and it is very accurate (usually it places me on the map even in the correct room). Also, this ...
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I read the article on Wikipedia describing what a DMZ (demilitarized zone) is on a network, but am still failing to grasp both how it is set up (ie: is it within the main network or sequestered away?) ...
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Can you answer these questions?
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As per my understanding both JWT and Basic Auth used to store login credentials on client side and avoid sessions for better scalability. I understand with Basic Auth login credentials will be sent ...
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This proposal concerns a strategy for isolating the permissions given to plugins in a plugin architecture. I'm looking for insight into whether this design can succeed in isolating those permissions.
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SCTP INIT has client random parameter.
SCTP INIT ACK has server random parameter.
There are no shared keys.
Using SHA-1, what key does the client or server use when performing the HMAC calculation?
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