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Could receiving in a text or an email, a URL link just like https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/ask of a website, which could be a pernicious one, ever pose a security problem at all? What I am asking is that: if I receive such a … Continue reading Could receiving a URL link, not clicking on it, ever pose a security problem?
For example, here is the VirusTotal scan of edition.cnn.com:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/965b9c99c8b23e6f4410d6de64524b53109b21a0af09fe3919fabd477fceff62/links
You can see 2 "outgoing links" in the "LINKS" tab:
h… Continue reading What are "outgoing links" in VirusTotal URL scan results? [closed]
I want certain web pages blocked (within my country) by my Govt on a website that uses HTTPS on all pages. My Govt agrees that the specific URLs need to be blocked but expresses helplessness as their ISPs claim they can’t selectively block… Continue reading Can ISPs selectively block a page URL on a HTTPS website leaving its other page URLs alone?
I’m really interested in Canary tokens and would like to learn more by building my own generator – And start with a simple URL token.
For example:
https://canarytokens.org/generate
It’s hard to find good materials on how to build canary (h… Continue reading How can I build a web bug / URL token from scratch? [closed]
So my friend sent me a IP grabbing link. I copied and pasted into playstation messages and sent it to my cousin. I’m wondering if my friend got my IP because I copied and pasted. I didn’t open the link nor click it so am I safe?
Continue reading Does forwarding a link expose my IP address? [closed]
Which Encryption / Encoding / Cryptography is used to generate this url token?
Note: 1/ Every Token is 16 digits long
2/ No special character is used in here
UEA0FMHdg6xp5Iq1
zqU8E7hq4RMBfuON
qc2YISBp0GlRZVqV
eO3jy907Wd0Pplxj
RjGA0TMnFNAo3… Continue reading What encryption is used in this case? [closed]
I was not sure about it and I got some answers from internet but didn’t get the logical reasoning behind it.
If I just click on a malicious link it might open a new tab, or it might download something. When it opens a new tab, it might dow… Continue reading Can just clicking on a malicious link lead to hacking of my device? [duplicate]
Someone in our family recently requested a password change for a website (Costco). Soon after requesting, they received an email with the standard "click the link below to reset", followed by a link.
They noticed that the email l… Continue reading Is it standard practice to hide where links point in a legitimate email?
Let’s say I have a site like stack overflow. People post comments with – possibly – links to external sites. Is there some "standard" set of rules to make it reasonably safe for users and website?
I have noticed the following fea… Continue reading Best practices for handling links in discussion posts
URL shortening services like TinyURL or Bitly have long become an essential part of the modern web, and are popular enough that even Google killed off their own already. Creating your own shortener is also a fun exercise, and in its core doesn’t require much more than a nifty domain …read more
Continue reading Turning GitHub Into A URL Shortening Service