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What is this kind of low-intensity, non-hacking attack on a web service?

network attacks
Jun 9 '16 at 10:09 Community♦ 1
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Why would a password be hashed before being used to encrypt something?

encryption passwords hash
Feb 18 '18 at 16:22 Heiko Hatzfeld 99
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Is a standalone phone number considered Personally Identifiable Information?

privacy pii
Jul 4 '18 at 14:01 Niels van Reijmersdal 233
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What are the real physical risks of casual social media publishing?

physical risk-management risk-analysis people-management social-media
Jun 15 '18 at 17:16 Steve Sether 20.3k
 
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How does Google store passwords for remote IMAP/POP services?

authentication google imap
Jun 8 '16 at 5:37 tylerl 76.8k
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Is there an equivalent of an Apple cryptochip in Android devices?

encryption android brute-force password-cracking
May 28 '16 at 9:58 Community♦ 1
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Is it possible to crack a PIN / PUK code on a phone SIM card?

brute-force phone
Sep 22 at 20:04 guest 1
 
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POC of a Java exploit using leftover JREs

java metasploit
Dec 21 '16 at 19:40 alecxe 1,147
 
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What are the actions of Locky on the source files which lead to encrypting?

malware ransomware
Apr 4 '16 at 15:29 Community♦ 1
 
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passphrases - lowercase and dictionary words

passwords passphrase
Nov 19 '15 at 5:01 Community♦ 1
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Bruteforcing an iOS PIN

brute-force ios password-cracking
Oct 14 '15 at 12:59 Jay Dansand 121
 
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Is a non-authenticated CSRF still a CSRF?

vulnerability csrf owasp owasp-top-ten
Apr 22 '17 at 11:50 iwaseatenbyagrue 3,530
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Is there a standard recommending physical destruction of a machine?

physical data-recovery
Mar 16 '17 at 18:31 Ryan Kelso 1,210
 
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How to crack passwords without revealing them?

passwords password-cracking software
Sep 23 '16 at 17:27 WoJ 8,451
 
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Why are there questions about “media” in a PCI-DSS SAQ A?

pci-dss
Oct 21 '15 at 20:14 mostlyinformed 2,545
 
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Where to check if a specific OS / service is vulnerable despite being patched, because of a vendor's decision?

known-vulnerabilities hardening threat-mitigation patching
Jul 22 '15 at 13:07 gowenfawr 59.9k
 
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Should a PCI-DSS certification be renewed?

pci-dss
Sep 28 '17 at 16:25 R15 2,843
 
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Where are IDS useful today?

network ids
Mar 13 '17 at 18:05 Out of Band 8,732
 
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What is the current consensus on storage of primary credentials or long-lived cryptographic tokens?

authentication storage credentials
May 23 '16 at 14:06 WoJ 8,451
 
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Is a “standalone WPS server” possible?

network wifi wireless wpa2 wps
Feb 12 '16 at 11:37 davidb 4,090
 
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What is “cardholder data” in PCI-DSS SAQ A context?

pci-dss
Dec 11 '15 at 22:34 Community♦ 1
 
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How does a merger formally impact an ISO 27001 certification?

compliance iso27001
Sep 29 at 10:01 Community♦ 1
 
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Formal functional relationship between risk and CVSS

risk-analysis cvss
Aug 12 at 7:02 Community♦ 1
 
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What are the risks associated with a vulnerable javascript in a client context?

javascript vulnerability client-side secure-coding
May 31 '17 at 7:47 Sjoerd 24.4k
 
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How are private and public keys different?

encryption asymmetric
May 27 '17 at 10:51 cornelinux 1,630
 
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Who signs off a PCI-DSS SAQ?

pci-dss
Jan 31 '17 at 11:08 Chris 1
 
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Is there an example where pseudo-authentication via oAuth fails? [duplicate]

authentication oauth
Sep 13 '16 at 18:03 WoJ 8,451
 
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Does a Mailbox Export Request modify the mailbox data?

windows forensics exchange
Aug 18 '16 at 22:45 Community♦ 1
 
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Is there a “smart cache” device which provides cache if authorized?

network http authorization caching
Oct 27 '15 at 19:17 WoJ 8,451
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Are there standards for software disk image acquisition in forensics?

forensics
Apr 11 '15 at 11:49 WoJ 8,451
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