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226
Why are chips safer than magnetic stripes?
Jan 23 '14 at 13:45
125
How safe are password managers like LastPass?
Nov 8 '13 at 16:31
97
Trying to create safe website where security is handled by the website and not the user
Oct 6 '16 at 19:52
89
Company computers for competent developers, how can you deal with them?
Aug 30 '16 at 16:06
85
Would a CD drive on a driverless car pose a security risk?
Oct 11 '16 at 13:42
81
Is there a threshold for a password so long it doesn't get any more secure or even becomes insecure?
Mar 24 '16 at 14:17
63
Is a 6 digit numerical password secure enough for online banking?
May 31 '16 at 21:14
61
How practical is it to bruteforce a 10-digit number via URL
Aug 25 '16 at 15:26
61
Is there any way my password is hashed, if I'm only ever asked to provide 5 out of many characters?
Sep 23 '15 at 10:38
49
Why don't browser DNS caches mitigate DDOS attacks on DNS providers?
Oct 23 '16 at 3:37
49
What person should I write a penetration test report as?
Jan 27 '16 at 5:12
49
Is Java secure for the desktop?
Sep 17 '15 at 9:46
47
What is the benefit of having a cryptographically secure hash algorithm in hashmaps?
Oct 5 '18 at 12:58
43
Sending passwords to someone remotely
May 22 '14 at 13:50
42
Should websites be allowed to disable autocomplete on forms or fields?
Jan 26 '14 at 21:13
41
avoid hitting DB to authenticate a user on EVERY request in stateless web app architecture?
Jan 22 '14 at 10:54
40
How to launch XSS code from an INPUT HTML tag upon page load?
Aug 22 '15 at 20:00
38
Why is client-side hashing of a password so uncommon?
Nov 29 '16 at 9:39
35
Four-factor authentication
Sep 23 '14 at 15:07
32
What can a company do against insiders going rogue and negatively affecting essential infrastructure?
Jul 28 '16 at 12:25
29
Help! My home PC has been infected by a virus! What do I do now?
Oct 4 '16 at 4:36
28
When do honest people need privacy or anonymity? (e.g. they have nothing to hide)
Aug 3 '15 at 11:47
27
Someone has my ip address and is threatining to find and leak my personal information
Sep 24 '17 at 19:05
27
Why do some internet banks force logout on back button?
Jan 13 '16 at 15:19
25
How do I report a security vulnerability about a trusted certificate authority?
Jun 10 '15 at 15:00
23
Why would properly logging full http requests be bad practice?
Mar 30 '16 at 15:42
22
Exposing database fields names in HTML
Jan 7 '16 at 14:07
22
One liner to create passwords in linux?
Oct 20 '14 at 19:22
22
Preventing XSS for REST API
Oct 28 '13 at 8:44
21
Why would HTTP client only send authentication headers once an unauthenticated request was rejected?
Sep 10 '14 at 8:11
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