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Does a database with pre-calculated SHA256 values exist for Windows EXEs?

Background: At my place of work, we're trying to block all unapproved browsers on all Windows machines and the IT Security guys did a search on our internal infrastructure and came up with a list of ...
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Firejail Blacklist/Whitelist Priorities

I have defined the following: whitelist /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/ noblacklist /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/ blacklist /home However I get: ls: cannot access '/home/user/.mozilla/firefox': ...
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Blacklisting vs. whitelisting characters to prevent XSS?

I've been reading about XSS prevention on OWASP and other security channels. They all say that I should use ESAPI or a similar library and do input filtering through a whitelist approach. However, I ...
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Whitelist Application For Windows Server 2012

My problem I am looking for an application which runs on Windows Server 2012 for security reasons. Our server began attacked on many protocols. They are trying brute force attacks with very weak ...
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Difference between Knowledge-based IDS and behavior-based IDS

I have difficulties in understanding the difference between Knowledge-based IDS and behavior-based IDS. This link says that a knowledge-based IDS uses a database of specific attacks and system ...
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Why not just blacklist every IP except yours?

Inspired as a continuation of this question: Is it practical to pre-blacklist certain GeoIP regions? Why would it not make sense to blacklist every single IP address that shouldn't have access to a ...
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Are there any standard practices for protecting against malicious links being entered in a public form?

A website I'm working on needs to have a form for any visitor to submit a request for information about a service. The user will not need to create an account, and contact details are just part of the ...
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DDoS Mitigation - Whitelist or Blacklist Incoming SOURCE Ports?

For a network offering webservices, I have had recommendations to blacklist a couple of common incoming DESTINATION ports, such as UDP 53, to combat the increasing load from DDoS. I'm wondering if it ...
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Technical term needed: Per default secured / blacklist vs whitelist

I'm currently working on a homework and missing a technical term / known best practice to describe what I have learned or what I feel that is better. It is about a publish / subscribe architecture, ...