Does Wire employ encryption of data at rest?
I generally consider Signal and Wire to be the best tools today for sending information privately between two parties. Both meet the marks on crypto, open-source, 3rd party audits, PFS via the d…
I have some questions about certificate pinning.
Supposing that a mobile application has pinned only the root CA, it should be possible to an attacker to redirect in some way the victim to a malicious website with the same Root CA. Am I wr…
I am about to return my ThinkPad laptop to my (former) employer. I found a very nice solution to erase / protect my private data — ThinkWipe application in ThinkPad’s BIOS. I made use of it right away.
However, to my kind of big surprise,…
I’m trying to verify GameCenter authentication on an iOS app with GameKit. The fetchItems API returns a URL for the public key needed to do this.
Steps 3 and 4 of that API say:
Use the publicKeyURL on the third-party server to download t…
I’ve been fumbling through the world of Information Security by going through the HTB challenges, and I’ve come across an issue I just can’t seem to find an answer for. During one of the challenges I’m trying to crack a zip password using …
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I am trying to delete a certificate and it’s private key using certutil -csp "Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider v1.0" -delkey "the key container". This gave me a command completed successfully message. I then ch…
I’m trying to recreate a Watering hole SMB theft attack where you send a victim a link to your website containing code like file://ip/file.gif.
Causing forced authentication which passes the NTLM hash.
I have the code which executes the pr…
I have worked on many API integrations scenarios and I used 2 approaches to authenticate the API calls:
Using API Keys
For example inside Hubspot integration I use this web call to get all the accounts using API Key:
https://api.hubapi.c…
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