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Malware prevention of data received in a POST endpoint
What's the risk?
For example, someone can send data in a form of html (like above example) and also set it's name as a html file with file extension. If then you request that data, the file is ...
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Does attaching malware or virus in an email count as Phishing attack
Yes and no.
In practice, yes, this is considered "phishing" even though it does not satisfy the strict definition. Only because there are no other better terms. "Phishing" now ...
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Does attaching malware or virus in an email count as Phishing attack
The term "phishing" is used in two senses.
The tighter definition is that it must involve automated collection of credentials. This typically involves a form pretending to be a legitimate ...
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How easy is it to inject malware into websites?
There is no defined scale for "easy" or "hard" inject malware into a website. But for most sites one can probably say that it is possible if the attacker is willing to spend enough ...
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Can flash drive infect Android and then the Android infect Windows PC?
Theoretically? Yes. Practically? No
Such usb stick would have needed to persistently infect the Android phone (without requesting access, so likely through some kind of exploit to an Android ARM) in ...
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How to protect digital evidence against deletion when confronted with a motivated state actor
What about the good old DVD? Might have gone out of fashion nowadays but is has more than enough space to hold 2GB of data and it is downright impossible to delete data from it without physical access ...
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Can my infected phone’s hotspot infect my outdated computer?
I’m not a random target, the hacker knows me and is targeting me. The hacker is advanced, with many years of knowledge and experience.
Yes. A hacker targeting specifically someone with an outdated ...
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Malware prevention of data received in a POST endpoint
how can you check a string with all the different possible dangers?
You can't because:
that would mean you have a perfect AV product (which hasn't happened yet, all AV products have false negatives)....
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Can malware spread through HDMI, Display Port or USB
USB
Yes USB is known to be dangerous [1], for a long time already - just think of the Windows Autorun-Feature combined with e.g. USB sticks. There are numerous attacks possible [2] using USB as a ...
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What allows for reinfection of the same PUP after quarantine and removal?
Related question: Can Chrome sync be infected?
It sounds like the user is signed in to Chrome sync, which by default syncs extensions. Having an unwanted extension keep installing itself via the ...
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