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Recently, I found an online job. The job is to collect jpg information such as passport or id card pictures and proof of billing pictures for an ICO company. They told me, as an investor they needed a mass quantity of persona… Continue reading Is this online job (ICO comany asking for personal data) scam or not? [on hold]
There are two sides of password complexity, the administrator’s side and the users’ side. They are effectively disjointed requirements. Good complexity and policies of passwords are discussed often. But I have not seen any go… Continue reading password complexity and policies from the users’ point of view
See this question/answer first: When calling a process from another process, Is sending stdin password more secure than sending an ENV variable?
I am a Java developer that is building an app where it needs to call a C# proc… Continue reading How to securely send a password from one app to another app?
Currently, I’ve many scripts that need to log in as superuser to automate many tasks. (For example, creating tables in databases, creating other users, etc.)
Instead of having the credentials (especially the passwords) store… Continue reading Best practices for storing credentials used by code
Some password management applications suggest strong passwords formed by groups of random words stringed together with a simple delimiter. For example:
duplicate.aught.cavemen.length
In contrast, I believe that a suggestion… Continue reading Relative Strength of Automated Password Suggestions
I want to use zxcvbn-c but it gives the entropy number, not score like the javascript library does. How do I convert entropy number to a score? (0 to 4)
The zxcvbn blog/source mentions that the score is related to estimated … Continue reading How to convert zxcvbn entropy to score
A while ago I was asking questions about using python to secure windows. This was an answer I recieved. Could someone tell me how someone would do this?
“As an overall way to do it, if you can find out which settings are c… Continue reading How can I make a master policy file for Windows using Python?
The password filter does a simple check: Does the new password contain an entry in the list of forbidden words?
In practice, the list is a series of forbidden words and known passwords.
I think it stands to reason that the … Continue reading I’m implementing password validation for AD accounts. Is it dangerous to publish the forbidden words list?
The password filter does a simple check: Does the new password contain an entry in the list of forbidden words?
In practice, the list is a series of forbidden words and known passwords.
I think it stands to reason that the … Continue reading I’m implementing password validation for AD accounts. Is it dangerous to publish the forbidden words list?
My bank has an online password security policy which seems to me 100% wrong at all levels. Since it is one of the biggest banks in my country, I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt, and consider the possibility that I’m not … Continue reading Is my online bank password security policy good enough?