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Do I need high password security if I also require a Client Certificate for validation?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Joe

Due to an ongoing discussion in my office, I was wondering if anyone had any comments on whether password hashing security needs to be very strong if client certificate validation is also required for account verification.

W… Continue reading Do I need high password security if I also require a Client Certificate for validation?→

Posted in Account Security, certificates, password cracking, passwords

Trying to determine if someone was "DoS’d"

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Joe

I’m part of a pretty small video game community and one of our members claims he was DoSed or DDoSed during a recent match. We are currently split as some people believe he was and others believe he wasn’t.
Here are the router logs from t… Continue reading Trying to determine if someone was "DoS’d"→

Posted in attacks, DDoS, Denial of Service, network

How many security questions should be asked? [closed]

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Joe

We currently use 5 security questions but Operations team is asking us if we could lower down to 3.

With that,What is the best practice for this one? How many security questions should be asked?

Continue reading How many security questions should be asked? [closed]→

Posted in secret-questions

How many security questions should be asked? [on hold]

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Joe

We currently use 5 security questions but Operations team is asking us if we could lower down to 3.

With that,What is the best practice for this one? How many security questions should be asked?

Continue reading How many security questions should be asked? [on hold]→

Posted in Defense, reference-request

Is the password for Amazon’s Kindle for PC stored on the computer’s hard drive?

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Joe

When first using Amazon’s “Kindle for PC,” it asks you for a password. Subsequent times using “Kindle for PC,” it doesn’t ask you for your password. Is that password stored on the computer’s hard drive? And if so, will a … Continue reading Is the password for Amazon’s Kindle for PC stored on the computer’s hard drive?→

Posted in one-time-password

How secure is Yahoo Account Key?

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Joe

I (along with a billion or so other people) was notified about my Yahoo! account being potentially compromised yesterday. While I’m not worried about that (I have changed my password since then, have a very long and complex … Continue reading How secure is Yahoo Account Key?→

Posted in multi-factor, passwords, Yahoo

Why are JWT’s secure?

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Joe

I want to make sure that my use of JWT’s in authentication is correct. There are a couple of issues that I don’t understand. This is my current understanding:

When a user logs in, the server will create a JWT the third part of which is a … Continue reading Why are JWT’s secure?→

Posted in authentication

Prevent a page from appearing in browser’s history

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Joe

I have inherited an ASP website where sensitive data was passed in the query string as part of the URL. Something like this:

www.example.Com/Test?details=Username&moreDetails=blahblah

If we change this to encrypt the query string, s… Continue reading Prevent a page from appearing in browser’s history→

Posted in logging, web browser

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