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I am planning on learning about information security, I am a total beginner, currently involved in a degree not related to this field, only wanted to study for knowledge. So I am here to ask for advice on how to get started, or maybe get s… Continue reading Beginner in information security [closed]
Since I cannot receive email directly from my home server, I need an external device to receive messages for me and deliver them to my MTA via another port or via VPN. Instead of renting a VPS just for this, I was thinking about purchasing… Continue reading Full disk encryption and remote unlocking a mail server in the hand of a possible attacker, what could go wrong?
In order to “harden” our compliance, we wanted to enforce a two-persons rule on the MySQL production database for “manual fixes”. Such “manual fixes” frequently arise due to:
Bug in the application (we are a fast company :D)
Various cust… Continue reading Two persons-rule on MySQL databases for "manual fixes"
I’m building a site that will use youtubeAPI to keep track of playlist changes.
In order for 3rd party to use it I would supply a dialog box in which user would type his/hers playlistID – this would be read and then put as an argument into… Continue reading Is running bash script that is taking arguments from site dialog box a good idea?
what can be the harms that may come to an organisation if they do not take appropriate precautions before conducting a penetration test and what would be the negative impacts that could occur?
According to me, The key here is use virtuali… Continue reading precautions before conducting a penetration test
I have heard an attack-type known as “fabrication” which means attacking targets via impersonating real senders.
How can we do this kind of attack? If you give some examples other than phishing, that would be useful.
Continue reading How can we do a fabrication attack? [closed]
MMOs have been around along time. As a result, there are lots of past attacks on MMOs that we can learn from and apply to a modern MMO.
As a security novice, I was wondering if in today’s climate you were to create a MMO, would it be pos… Continue reading Creating a Secure Modern MMO From the Ground Up [closed]
I got an email from my hosting provider telling me that my VPS was used to perform DDOS attacks on this website: cpanel4.vhosting-it.com. Unfortunately I haven’t read their email sooner, so they suspended my account.
Here’s the log that t… Continue reading My VPS was used for DDOS Attacks [duplicate]
If supposing I discover that my network is being attacked by some hacker or is being compromised in any way and I am able to detect it. So, is there any software-oriented way of ‘locking-down’ the network?
Basically, that means that there… Continue reading Is there a way to lock down a network?
I was yesterday rotating all my vault passwords and I found this. It’s a little bug on the Apple ID password reset screen that tells you that your new password is weak if its length is longer than 63 characters (which is funny, indeed, esp… Continue reading Why is the apple id maximum length of characters permitted 63?