Collaborate Disseminate
It is an obvious security vulnerability to have my API keys out in the open as such when initially developing my app. Parse is setup this way because it’s easy for development and learning I assume.
I’m going on the assumption that accepti… Continue reading How to protect API keys from malicious usage in Flutter with Parse
There are two computers A and B. Computer A connects to the internet and listens for relevant data to download. Computer B has no connection to the internet but needs to receive input from Computer A, process the data, then output the re… Continue reading How to secure the data on a computer that is connected to another computer with internet access [closed]
I noticed I was getting ads from New York when I am in South America. I couldn’t access some content that is locked for countries outside my region so I went on whatismyip to check my address and it showed I was in NYC, connected to the se… Continue reading Is Malware Altering My IP Address? [closed]
I have already read those 3 topics about WPAD attacks but I’m still confused, so I’m here looking for a deeper explanation.
CONTEXT
I think a WPAD attack is happening in my home and I was not aware about what WPAD is until now. A svchost.e… Continue reading How to properly deal with WPAD attacks?
I have heard people say that separating the resource server and auth server makes it easier to scale but also improves the security. As I don’t know much about hacking I hope that someone could ELI5 how separating the resource server and a… Continue reading ELI5 what is the benefit of separating my resource server and auth server?
I have heard people say that separating the resource server and auth server makes it easier to scale but also improves the security. As I don’t know much about hacking I hope that someone could explain how separating the resource server an… Continue reading What is the benefit of separating my resource server and auth server?
I humbly assume that DDoS is very unlikely to happen to my website.
A CDN that should protect from it slows my website according to my personal experience and tests (perhaps only because of the strange demand to have all webpages redirecte… Continue reading DDoS might be very unlikely to happen to my website but in any case a CDN that should protect from it slows my website
We use multiple kinds of token in our system for :
Invitation to joint a group
Account creation (validate if the user possesses the email address)
Validate email address
The tokens are sent in a link in an email. I have been asked to inc… Continue reading Display a token’s expiration date to a user
For the usual reasons we want to cache certain resources browser side, e.g. list of products bought in the past.
Context is a web application, accessed via the internet.
This list is confidential in my case, and I want to mitigate the case… Continue reading How can I protect browser cached files to be accessed in a case of a stolen hard drive?
Situation:
React app that was initially running on a VPS
A few days ago, we were the target of a DDOS attack that took the site down.
During the attack, we decided to migrate to Netlify.
Once migrated, the site was live again. The attack … Continue reading How to prevent DDOS attack impact on Netlify? (downtime + bandwith usage/cost) [migrated]