Questions tagged [credentials]
Credentials in security context are elements that prove your identity to a system, for example a username and password or a client-side certificate. It is usually used to describe elements supplied by the authenticating client, not when the server authenticates to the client or in mutual authentication schemes.
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Windows AD - Fake User Account with Multiple Passwords to Detect Password Spray
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I'm trying to implement a fake user account that has multiple sets of credentials that can be used. Instead of a specific password, any one password from a list of them could be used to ...
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Using public WPA2 Enterprise credentials for public Wi-Fi
In South Korea, I've seen a couple of public Wi-Fi networks advertise a "secure" option. Stickers on public buses in Seoul and the captive portal login page for unencrypted Wi-Fi instruct ...
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Why would Jenkins want to read the memory of lsass.exe?
Is there any legitimate reason why Jenkins would ever need to request the memory of c:\windows\system32\lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service)?
The endpoint protection (Carbon Black) ...
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Best method to send credentials to clients
I'm constantly exchanging credentials with my clients for things like database servers, cloud accounts, etc. Neither I nor my clients, have time to implement a sophisticated method for secure ...
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Enabling a user to revert a hacked change in their email
I am writing a web app and I want to set up a system where, when a user changes their email, it gives them a link to have the change revert back. The purpose of this is for when a hacker changes an ...
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Cracking WiFi credentials without handshake or PKMS
How can I crack WiFi credentials WITHOUT using the traditional method of capturing a PKMS or Handshake?
When I connect to a WiFi network, I simply enter a password into a text box just like any other ...
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Why is PayPal asking for my bank password? [duplicate]
Another posted the exact same question and it was dismissed saying PayPal would never do such a thing.
Well, I was adding a bank acct yesterday to transfer funds and PayPal popped up a username and ...
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How long would it take to crack hashed password stored in plain sight?
I want to store a password hash in plain sight. If I am using a dictionary to crack an Argon2 hashed password that I am storing in plain sight, how long would it take (assuming my password is ...
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Security and practicality of passing secrets to services running as non-privileged user
I strongly dislike and mistrust the practice to store secrets in plain text files for unattended access by services.
This is increasingly less of an issue in modern deployments where secrets are ...
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Is it safe to check-in a RSA private key?
As far as I know, it is bad to check-in something like a password in a version control system. However, I saw in a project that a private_key.pem file with -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ... content ...
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Should user credentials and user info be stored in seperate tables?
Should I store credentials (like email, hashed password) in a separate table than the user's profile information (bio, gender, etc)?
My main concern is that I'll be sending other user's information (...
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Explanation of capabilities: CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
I am still studying kernel credential management (https://kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/security/credentials.html) and I have encountered a use case I cannot explain.
I am in a VM (Kali).
❯ uname -a
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Git pre receive hook and fragments left behind
Quite a common use of a git pre-receive hook is to scan for sensitive information and then block from entering the repository. It appears from looking at examples, that conventionally, you are given ...
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Can my name be revealed from a stolen Verifiable Credential?
Let vc be a W3C Verifiable Credential Standard compliant verifiable credential. If I print it out on paper and loose it on the subway, can an attacker pick up the paper, type in the information into a ...
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OAuth2 - What is the advantage of using certificate over client secret credentials? (Azure)
When using OAuth2 in Azure, why Certificates are more secure than using Secrets?
The Secrets have expiration and are strong, and generated automatically.
The application needs to send a JWT containing ...
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Is storing a username in session storage a security risk?
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I have a page which verifies the user's email address, that has access to their user id. From this page they're redirected to the login page. I want their username to be filled in already. In ...
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What is the risk of committing .npmrc file and exposing to the world?
I have seen multiple projects committing .npmrc file along with rest of the files. Are the auth credentials npm credentials? What is the risk if an attacker gets hold of the credentials? As npm ...
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Securely storing password and encryption key on AWS
I have an EC2 Webserver on AWS which has a MYSQL database. The login data is stored on AWS using the Secret Manager. I have added an IAM role for the Server to get access to the password and an ...
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Store login credentials securely with JavaScript [duplicate]
Today I have a web application that needs to store the user's email and password, so that when he opens the login screen, the authentication is done automatically.
For this, our application saves the ...
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"encrypting" a physical copy of a number by remembering a series of mathemtical operations rather than a key. Is this safe?
For example I want to have a hard copy of my backup 2FA codes so that if I lose/destroy/don't have my phone or laptop on me. I, of course, do not want them in plain text. I don't want to encrypt them ...
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Is there any safe way to use Windows Credential Manager's generic credentials?
(note: VS Code is just an example, question is not specific to VS Code)
I would like to use Windows Credential Manager's generic credentials, say store git passwords when using VS Code, so I have not ...
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Logging in as another user - Security Issue
Two users are using same web application online. Suddenly, I checked my profile and it was data of another user. How this is possible? We both are using the same app at the same time, the app is on ...
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At-rest encryption. Use SFTP log-in credentials to unlock/decrypt encrypted drive or folder on an Ubuntu Linux server
I have a simple file server running on a small Ubuntu machine that facilitates file sharing and 2 way folder syncing between my and my girlfriend's 4 computers through SFTP over a private network.
The ...
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Could a bad actor get hold of your credential sent via https if you are connect to their fake network?
Imagine this typical Fake WiFi scenario:
A bad actor creates a fake coffee shop Wifi and therefore is in full control of the network. An unsuspecting victim would connect to the Wifi and log in to ...
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Your username can only be changed once?
I've seen quite a few security centric sites enforce this policy:
Your username can only be changed once
My question is: Is this done from a security standpoint? If yes, what is the logic behind it? ...
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What prevents attackers from posing as legitimate smb server?
Let's suppose on my computer was a connection to a smb network share, set to reconnect automatically on startup. Now one of the following things happens:
The computer is booted up in another network
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How to store secret network share credentials in desktop application?
I have a .net winforms application used in LAN by the company's employees, and it should access a network share to copy files to it. The share has credentials that should not be known to end users.
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Why some payment methods allow being embedded in an iframe and some don't?
Let's take some examples:
Pay Pal, Apple Pay (examples via Saferpay) - will not load in an iFrame
Visa Checkout, Stripe (example), Saferpay (link above) - credit card data can be input in an iFrame
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AWS credentials seem terribly insecure. Why? [closed]
In my ~/.aws/credentials I have the following:
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aws_access_key_id = <something>
aws_secret_access_key = <something-else>
This file has permissions 0600 but doesn't ...
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ESP32: Secure WiFi credentials via WebCrypto?
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I am not a computer scientist. However, in a research project I am currently building a ESP32-based sensor. Multiple sensors of this type are going to be used by multiple users....
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Python desktop application: storing cloud database passwords
I am currently building a Python desktop application in PyQt/PySide which will be compiled to .exe. I am planning to use the Azure SQL database and a remote file storage (like S3).
An issue arises ...
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How is TDS authentication data protected?
I'm currently testing an application, which connects to a MS-SQL database. Through Wireshark, I can see that the application uses TDS to connect to the database. Furthermore, I can see that both the ...
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Are there any risks associated with publishing AWS VPC ids, Subnet ids?
I have a CloudFormation template with parameters in my private Github repo. I'd like to make it public.
I have vpc-id and subnet-id in my parameters.json. I have seen this type of data being scrubbed ...
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How to securely share credentials between two local applications?
My employer has a system that clinicians use to capture video data for patient bookings. This comprises two applications running on Windows:
A GUI application (Electron/Javascript)
A local service (C#...
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How do sites detect credential sniffing, and what is the purpose of this attack?
I just got an email from the Unsplash service telling me that someone had logged into my account via credential sniffing:
Five minutes later I get three more emails, each one notifying that a (...
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Difference between access control systems that can/can't be compromised without valid credentials?
Take the following examples:
When I run sshd, it can in theory grant access to anything that the process itself has access to, regardless of provided credentials. For example, I could in theory ...
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Using Google Docs to share passwords
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Often developers and clients need to exchange passwords to be able to access some services. Of course the best option would be to never use someone else's credentials to log in, and instead ...
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How is Firefox importing credentials from other browsers without the need for the admin password?
Im currently looking into the security of different browser password storing mechanisms. My main focus lies on the new Chromium based Microsoft Edge browser.
As far as I can see, Chromium based ...
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How to handle AWS credentials
Our web application features a lot of media upload. We are making use of AWS S3 buckets for media storage. As per the current implementation, whenever a new file upload API is called, we send the AWS ...
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routersploit bruteforce cred attack using http
While I'm trying to do a bruteforce attack on my router using routersploit.
Im getting the error
rsf (HTTP Basic/Digest Bruteforce) > run
[*] Running module creds/generic/...
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git reflog is showing plain text password used as a secret texts or files in Jenkins
We are using Jenkins Freestyle Project to push the changes on the remote server. We are executing shell script on remote host using ssh for it. To pull the changes on the remote server, we are using ...
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Login with AD credentials on behalf of a user
We have a web solution (running in IIS) where AD users and non-AD users need to log into. We sell this to companies and will run this on-prem only.
non-AD-FS and only AD question (so no federation)
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Protecting a website from being kidnapped
I have a MediaWiki website in Hebrew;
As common with MediaWiki websites, it has lots of content and rebuilding it in case of a disaster isn't feasible.
I chose to give that website a Global TLD (a non ...
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How can I write a function that will log a user in an old system without knowing any username or password? [closed]
I'm studying Internet Security and I learned something about code injection in older websites (using the string ' OR 1 == 1 // as a username will log in with any password provided); but what if a ...
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Who (Designer or User) Should be Resposible for the Correct/Secure Usage of a Tool Intended for Developers/Admins? [closed]
There is a healthy debate around a series of stack overflow posts that refer to the "RunAs" command. Specifically the discussion is in reference to design decision that the folks at ...
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Does TLS hash passwords before encrypting?
Suppose I am logging into Gmail by giving my credentials. Does my plaintext get encrypted or is it first converted to the hash and the hash encrypted?
And also if I am communicating to the bank web ...
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Security implications of using unfused U2F token
I noticed that both of the Feitian USB/NFC U2F Security Keys I purchased on Amazon a few years ago are unfused. This means that the pre-personalization step was partially performed but not completed ...
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How do I securely store credentials and key files on my mac?
There must be a handy way to securely store, say, GCP key.json somewhere on my machine and access it whenever I'm deploying stuff. Backup to cloud is a must. The Apple's Keychain access seems ...
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Is using virtualbox for web browsing worth it for added security?
My host machine is running Windows 10. I've installed VirtualBox and use it to run an Ubuntu VM. Inside the VM I use Firefox to do all of my web browsing that doesn't involve entering sensitive data ...
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How to secure backup scripts so I do not have to hardcode passwords?
I have a secure and private aws ec2 environment but I need to do some backups of mongodb, postgresql, so I have a separate ec2 instance for doing backup and occasionally allow 80 and 443 to allow ...
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