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Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why?

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Jul 9 at 9:53 MC Emperor 103
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How can someone go off-web, and anonymise themselves after a life online?

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Jan 1 '20 at 12:42 forest 53.2k
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“Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange” in plain English

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Jun 8 at 5:11 Tobi Nary 14.1k
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Is the save button delay in a Firefox download dialog a security feature? What does it protect?

web-browser drive-by-download
Mar 23 '16 at 15:15 Community♦ 1
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Is there any reason to not show users incorrectly entered passwords after a successful login?

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Sep 19 '16 at 2:38 Community♦ 1
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What should you do if you catch encryption ransomware mid-operation?

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Dec 6 '17 at 8:22 Community♦ 1
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How can I explain to non-techie friends that “cryptography is good”?

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Nov 10 '17 at 23:31 Community♦ 1
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How does Windows 10 allow Microsoft to spy on you?

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Sep 9 '15 at 12:10 Community♦ 1
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Search for military installed backdoors on laptop

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Jul 29 '19 at 7:30 DanRan 101
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How do I deal with a compromised server?

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Dec 10 at 20:52 Artem S. Tashkinov 920
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Should I be concerned if the “FBI” has logged onto my Ubuntu VPS?

linux ssh spoofing system-compromise
Nov 2 '18 at 20:41 lol what is this 1,531
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How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users?

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Apr 29 '16 at 22:13 user1717828 2,362
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Is momentary physical access dangerous?

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Nov 12 '19 at 7:05 user1306322 926
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My ISP uses deep packet inspection; what can they observe?

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Jun 1 at 16:35 usrbs 1
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Alternatives to anti-virus for keeping oneself safe

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Jul 3 at 6:48 Overmind 8,364
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Roles to play when tailgaiting into a residential building

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Nov 19 '18 at 16:03 Anders 61.5k
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How dangerous is it to reveal your date of birth, and why?

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Dec 6 at 7:53 OldCurmudgeon 155
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How to create a company culture that cares about information security?

risk-management risk-analysis business-risk
Dec 27 '16 at 11:32 Community♦ 1
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How do services with high uptime apply patches without rebooting?

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Oct 29 '18 at 17:05 Harper - Reinstate Monica 3,073
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How to deal with low-probability high-impact risks?

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Jul 29 '18 at 4:43 Sayan 2,023
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What attacks are made possible by public release of my web history?

web-browser url
Dec 17 '18 at 10:27 user11153 894
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Good analogy needed: Sec issues due to different coders implementing the same features in different ways for the same app

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Jun 11 '18 at 14:40 Community♦ 1
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Charging someone else's cell phone in my car

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Apr 26 '16 at 1:46 Community♦ 1
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How can Twitter and GitHub be sure that they haven't been hacked?

passwords system-compromise
May 8 '18 at 11:28 MahNas92 111
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Why aren't IMSI catchers rendered ineffective by standard MITM defenses?

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Mar 16 '16 at 4:49 AndreKR 457
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Are EU cookie consent forms safe? [closed]

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Sep 4 '18 at 22:11 Neslihan Tuzun 1
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Is there a reason to use TrueCrypt over VeraCrypt?

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Jan 23 '17 at 18:45 techraf 8,873
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How does my browser inherently trust a CA?

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May 9 '17 at 2:31 Arminius 41k
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Can USB drive infect my PC with malware if I don't allow any autorun.inf to run?

windows malware usb-drive
Nov 26 '15 at 14:16 Jorge Luque 614
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Are there any reasonable TrueCrypt forks?

disk-encryption truecrypt luks
Jun 16 '14 at 16:52 Community♦ 1
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