Collaborate Disseminate
So I get these questions quite a lot recently from friends or family. And I thought this could be a good question for Security Exchange, because I couldn’t find this kind of question here.
I recieved questions like:
Shou… Continue reading Cleanware. What does it do and are there security risks involved?
Cyber attacks are increasing everyday. Even after installing antivirus, I am getting numerous warning from different ip address. I think my computer is also compromised, getting some pop ups even after uninstalling everything… Continue reading How do we detect intrusion into computer systems? [on hold]
Imagine I wish to upload my sensitive personal information (photos, document scans, list of passwords, email backups, credit card information, etc.) on Google Drive (or any other cloud service).
I want to make sure this enti… Continue reading Are 7-Zip password-protected split archives safe against hackers when they are password-protected a couple of times?
Imagine I wish to upload my sensitive personal information (photos, document scans, list of passwords, email backups, credit card information, etc.) on Google Drive (or any other cloud service).
I want to make sure this enti… Continue reading Are 7-Zip password-protected split archives safe against hackers when they are password-protected a couple of times?
An online company from which I regularly buy goods apparently recently upgraded their security policy.
Let’s say I bought something for 73,31€. As usual this company uses 3D-Secure for the checkout process and will actually … Continue reading Add a supplementary credit transaction to improve online payment security?
My company uses a private PKI to handle such scenarios such as
Mutual auth (TLS) to a website using client certificates
SSL web server certificates on an Intranet (once a VPN session is established.)
S/MIME secure email.
Ac… Continue reading Android Kitkat reports: "Network May Be Monitored by an Unknown Third Party" when using non-default root CA
From reading a lot of info on this website I came to the conclusion that if someone with enough skill really badly wants to gain access somewhere, then there is absolutely nothing stopping them from doing so. Additionally I l… Continue reading Why don’t banks get hacked?
I just came across https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
With Secure QR Login, your phone snaps
the QR code displayed on a website’s login
page . . . . and YOU are securely logged in.
This seems like it would be pretty… Continue reading Could SQRL really be as secure as they say?
In Information and IT Security there is a nasty tendency for specific “best practices” to become inviolable golden rules, which then leads to people recommending that they are applied regardless of whether they are appropriat… Continue reading Popular Security "Cargo Cults"
When Lotus Notes asks for the password, it displays a screen with a picture that appears to change after a new character is entered after the fifth character.
I have noticed the sequence of pictures is the same between closing and … Continue reading Changing picture as characters entered into password