Does Real-time typing view in chats invades privacy? Are there any detection and prevention methods?

When a customer talks with a representative of a company in a chat on a web-page, it is possible that they are actually sending every keystroke to their server before you hit the enter or click the send button.

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Does Real-time typing view in chats invades privacy? Are there any detection and prevention methods?

When a customer talks with a representative of a company in a chat on a web-page, it is possible that they are actually sending every keystroke to their server before you hit the enter or click the send button.

You are barte… Continue reading Does Real-time typing view in chats invades privacy? Are there any detection and prevention methods?

What kind of attack sends strings like V\x00Y\x00z\x005 and how to protect the server against these?

Revising the file access.log in a server I’ve noticed the classic attacks, requesting for login.php, membersHandler.ashx, etc. but this is strange to me:

22.22.22.22 – – [02/Oct/2018:02:20:20] “V\x00Y\x00z\x005\x00z\x00V… Continue reading What kind of attack sends strings like V\x00Y\x00z\x005 and how to protect the server against these?

How does Amazon prevent mischief in their AWS Lambda service if I am allowed to execute code on their machine?

AWS Lambda lets me execute a piece of code on a random Linux machine it provides to me, whenever I need to run my code.

What is stopping me from executing OS level commands that let me take over the machine?

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