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Is "the oft-cited XKCD scheme [...] no longer good advice"?

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Nick T

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What are ssh-keygen best practices?

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Tom Hale

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How should I distribute my public key?

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Roger C S Wernersson

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Which security measures make sense for a static web site?

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Sjoerd

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Should I use CSRF protection on Rest API endpoints?

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Conor Mancone

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Amount of simple operations that is safely out of reach for all humanity?

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Nakedible

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Why can I log in to my Facebook account with a misspelled email/password?

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aMJay

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How to determine what type of encoding/encryption has been used?

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Karthik

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What makes Docker more secure than VMs or bare metal?

Awarded Jan 27, 2020 at 8:45

Arseni Mourzenko

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What is the difference between SSL vs SSH? Which is more secure?

Awarded Nov 6, 2019 at 10:20

Am1rr3zA

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Session Authentication vs Token Authentication

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Hoax

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Does https prevent man in the middle attacks by proxy server?

Awarded Aug 13, 2019 at 19:30

jojo

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Stack Overflows - Defeating Canaries, ASLR, DEP, NX

Awarded May 10, 2019 at 16:55

sudhacker

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What is a specific example of how the Shellshock Bash bug could be exploited?

Awarded Apr 20, 2019 at 2:10

Rob Bednark

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How do ASLR and DEP work?

Awarded Apr 19, 2019 at 12:25

Polynomial

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Recommended # of iterations when using PBKDF2-SHA256?

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Tails

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What is the difference between authorized_keys and known_hosts file for SSH?

Awarded Jan 5, 2019 at 17:45

Ankit

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Is BASIC-Auth secure if done over HTTPS?

Awarded Dec 2, 2018 at 15:00

Morten

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How do certification authorities store their private root keys?

Awarded Nov 23, 2018 at 21:10

lynks

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Why shouldn't we roll our own?

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Polynomial

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How do I deal with a compromised server?

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Lucas Kauffman

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Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?

Awarded Oct 1, 2018 at 7:10

Citizen

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What is certificate pinning?

Awarded Jul 24, 2018 at 14:15

Son of the Wai-Pan

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Password Hashing: add salt + pepper or is salt enough?

Awarded Mar 6, 2018 at 21:22

Jacco

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Where do you store your personal private GPG key?

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Florian Margaine

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How to learn penetration testing at home?

Awarded Nov 1, 2017 at 10:19

Cyrus

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How to find live hosts on my network?

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TheRookierLearner

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Is Telegram secure?

Awarded Jul 18, 2017 at 6:40

ilazgo

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What security resources should a white-hat *developer* follow these days? [closed]

Awarded May 9, 2017 at 0:10

makerofthings7

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Where can I find good dictionaries for dictionary attacks?

Awarded Apr 21, 2017 at 17:41

Chris Dale

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SSL3 "POODLE" Vulnerability

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tylerl

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Why are hash functions one way? If I know the algorithm, why can't I calculate the input from it?

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Mucker

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Hardening Linux Server

Awarded Nov 24, 2016 at 19:16

Mark Davidson

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How does Google know where I am?

Awarded Oct 14, 2016 at 12:53

MNLR

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What's the difference between SSL, TLS, and HTTPS?

Awarded Sep 10, 2015 at 12:55

jrdioko

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Why are salted hashes more secure for password storage?

Awarded Sep 9, 2015 at 4:42

Tsyras

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How can someone go off-web, and anonymise themselves after a life online?

Awarded Aug 20, 2015 at 11:18

Rory Alsop♦

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RSA vs. DSA for SSH authentication keys

Awarded Jul 18, 2015 at 21:47

jrdioko

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What tools are available to assess the security of a web application?

Awarded Jun 8, 2015 at 12:26

Olivier Lalonde

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How to explain Heartbleed without technical terms?

Awarded Mar 28, 2015 at 19:14

user36976

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Why not use larger cipher keys?

Awarded Feb 16, 2015 at 17:59

Koning

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Lessons learned and misconceptions regarding encryption and cryptology

Awarded Dec 5, 2014 at 23:52

makerofthings7

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CRIME - How to beat the BEAST successor?

Awarded Nov 17, 2014 at 19:38

Kyle Rosendo

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How does changing your password every 90 days increase security?

Awarded Nov 9, 2014 at 4:07

Bill the Lizard

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How is it possible that people observing an HTTPS connection being established wouldn't know how to decrypt it?

Awarded Sep 20, 2014 at 4:40

Joshua Carmody

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Are passwords stored in memory safe?

Awarded Jan 15, 2014 at 15:38

Antoine Pinsard

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Is it bad practice to use your real name online?

Awarded Dec 13, 2013 at 3:04

blade19899

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Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?

Awarded Dec 10, 2013 at 20:07

nallenscott

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What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?

Awarded Nov 30, 2013 at 23:13

enderland

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What "hacking" competitions/challenges exist? [closed]

Awarded Sep 20, 2013 at 12:51

KilledKenny

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How to securely hash passwords?

Awarded Jun 28, 2013 at 19:05

AviD♦

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How to store salt?

Awarded Apr 8, 2013 at 20:08

George

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How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon?

Awarded Dec 23, 2012 at 11:05

torayeff

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How does SSL/TLS work?

Awarded Oct 9, 2012 at 9:21

Polynomial

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Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage?

Awarded Jul 23, 2012 at 1:13

Sam Saffron

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XKCD #936: Short complex password, or long dictionary passphrase?

Awarded Mar 11, 2012 at 14:15

Billy ONeal

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