A few days ago, I noticed an unknown MAC address in the statistics page of my home router. The OUI lookup yields Cisco as manufacturer. However, I don’t have such a device in my network — actually, I wrote down every MAC address, I know.
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If the goal is to make data no longer retrievable, how secure is it to format the disk?
I assumed formatting the disk overwrites free space (thus making it a safe bet no one’s going to be able to retrieve the data) but according to Weboped…
I am new to OAuth 2.0. I used BShaffer’s OAuth PHP Server on Authorization Code Grant, and I understand that the client application can have its OAuth token separate from its session authentication, that is, if a user logs out, the access …
I always heard that entering passwords or any sensitive information while using a public wifi spot is safe only when visiting an HTTPS website, ensuring that the URI and certificate are valid.
Many wifi spots in my country (France) are ba…
I am working on a tablet application and have come across an interesting issue.
We have a domain joined tablet that runs a Windows Store Application. We already have user identity and we need to call a web service endpoint that is secured…
This question has been asked several times, I’ll link a few:
https://superuser.com/questions/791015/https-over-private-network
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/616055/https-certificate-for-internal-use
https://stackoverflow.com/questi…
Similar to the question here, I’d like to apply the same question to a person.
For example, I have implanted a chip in my hand1 that holds an encrypted private key that serves as my personal unique identifier. As it is tied to my person ph…
Working on 2 layer security in the cloud (AWS). Have multiple clients pushing files to S3 document storage which are then retrieved by one EC2 instance.
Multiple external customers each requiring their own encryption (PUT files to S3)….
The Python code below should grab a CSRF token cookie from Instagram.com, but I get an error message when running the program through any sort of HTTPS or SOCKS5 proxy, informing me that the CSRF cookie isn’t provided.
If s.proxies is co…
I’m a Lastpass user and many times I thought about switching to the Credential Manager, for auto sync and a certain comfort with the windows environment. The only thing that I’m worried about is its security. I heard that it’s quite easy f…
