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Reliability of Padding Oracle vulnerability testers

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Alex

I recently ran my website through the Qualsys SSL Labs SSL Test. My website got a grade “F” with this message attached:

This server is vulnerable to the OpenSSL Padding Oracle vulnerability (CVE-2016-2107) and insecure. G… Continue reading Reliability of Padding Oracle vulnerability testers→

Posted in vulnerability-scanners

Is it safe to have a TrueCrypt container file synced with DropBox?

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Alex

I’m planning to store my sensitive files to the cloud. I don’t trust the already-made end-to-end encrypted file storage.
I only trust TrueCrypt. Assuming that TrueCrypt itself is safe, would it be secure to use DropBox to syn… Continue reading Is it safe to have a TrueCrypt container file synced with DropBox?→

Posted in Dropbox, truecrypt

Does git commit hash prove the history until that point?

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Alex

I have some data and want to prove it’s integrity during time, i.e. prove that a certain state of the data was present a a certain date.

For this reason I commit the data to a git repository I keep by myself (and at bitbucket).

Now I pla… Continue reading Does git commit hash prove the history until that point?→

Posted in audit, data-validation

Does is git commit hash prove the history until that point?

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Alex

I have some data and want to prove it’s integrity during time, i.e. prove that a certain state of the data was present a a certain date.

For this reason I commit the data to a git repository I keep by myself (and at bitbucke… Continue reading Does is git commit hash prove the history until that point?→

Posted in audit, data-validation

Why does one need a strong password on Unix?

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Alex

SSH Server: I only allow public key authentication.
Malicious Software: If it’s running as my user it has access to my data and an internet connection, it’s bad enough already. Yes, su access would make it worse, but the iss… Continue reading Why does one need a strong password on Unix?→

Posted in Account Security, Anomaly Detection, malware, physical, unix

Why does one need a strong password on Unix?

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Alex

SSH Server: I only allow public-key authentication.

Malicious Software: If it’s running as my user it has access to my data and an internet connection, it’s bad enough already. Yes, su access would make it worse, but the issue here is no… Continue reading Why does one need a strong password on Unix?→

Posted in Account Security, malware, passwords, physical, unix

Newly made PGP keys are expired (K-9 & Openkeychain)

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Alex

I have installed K-9 mail and Openkeychain to two of my Nexus devices. Both are using their own email address.

I have setup the mailaccounts on both of them and created for each of their own address a key in Openkeychain. Th… Continue reading Newly made PGP keys are expired (K-9 & Openkeychain)→

Posted in email, encryption, PGP

Is there any way of getting current user’s password in Windows 10?

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Alex

I’m trying to find a way of getting my current user password in plain text, is it possible?

I’ve seen here a way of doing it on Win7 but it’s not working for Win10.

If it’s not, could I, at least, read the password hash so… Continue reading Is there any way of getting current user’s password in Windows 10?→

Posted in passwords, Windows

How to keep users’s files seperate from each other? [on hold]

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Alex

I want to create cloud storage platform that users can uploads any kind of files and download them.But I want to be sure that none will enter another people files thats why I think I need to deny people to access with chmod … Continue reading How to keep users’s files seperate from each other? [on hold]→

Posted in authentication, file system, PHP, webserver

store all kinds of files in the zip using PHP?

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Alex

I want to create cloud storage platform that users can uploads any kind of files and download them.But I want to be sure that when user upload dangerous file it will not affect my server and they are not executeble(I can give… Continue reading store all kinds of files in the zip using PHP?→

Posted in content security policy, file system, file-upload, PHP, zip

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