Security in terms of "computer security", such as protection of information, protection from theft or data destruction.
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Where does Windows XP store previously used AD usernames?
When you open an application (for example Outlook), and Windows prompts you for your username and password with the User Name field already populated (and possibly has options in the drop-down) where ...
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Is it safe to use remote desktop to connect Windows 8 pro from remote location?
I want to access my home PC from outside from time to time.
Is it safe to enable port RDP forward on home router and remote desktop home Windows 8 from remote location?
Is another layer of SSH or ...
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Does this Terminal output indicate a that a keylogger has been installed on this Mac? [closed]
A friend is concerned that a keylogger has been installed on their machine, a Mac running MacOS 10.7.
I have the following Terminal output. Do any of you spot any indication of keylogging apps ...
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How to upgrade an offline computer's OS and software?
I have a Linux computer that is kept offline for extra security.
How do I keep it up to date without putting it online?
It's running Fedora 17, but I don't mind changing to another distribution if ...
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How should I make my Macbook Air totally secure? [closed]
I've recently been a little paranoid about being hacked and having my computer breached by people that I don't know, so I think it's time for a security upgrade. Anyone have any tips/software that I ...
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If my Windows user account (admin) is password-protected, can my PC still be accessed remotely without my knowledge?
My Windows user account (admin) is password protected and I'm wondering if my PC can still be accessed remotely without my knowledge.
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Penetration testing with WMAP, only for my domain, not the others with the same IP?
My domain got massively hacked, so I'm doing some penetration testing with it using WMAP and NMAP etc.
However, I believe it's on shared hosting, so running tests on 182.34.xx.xxx (the IP address for ...
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Is there a way to access a log of all recent activity that happened on my computer (MB Air)?
So I logged onto this unrestricted WiFi network, and I just want to be safe and make sure no one has been messing around on my computer. Anyone know a way to access a log of all recent activity on my ...
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How to open the key pair within mozilla firefox [closed]
I have tried and also generated the key pair in ubuntu and i could not able to copy the public key in server and how to certify the key without password for my own site.
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How to remove Dropbox access from a computer you no longer have? [migrated]
I have Dropbox installed on a few computers. One of which I no longer have access to.
I no longer wish for that computer to be able to have access to my Dropbox account but I see no way to stop ...
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How to safely store passwords to access several servers? [duplicate]
I administrate several Windows servers, and I have run into this "how do I maintain all my passwords" problem.
The servers in question are all stand-alone and distributed all over the world. In other ...
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how to make windows recognise only one USB?
I wanted to do a windows system to recognize and work only with my usb not others, is that possible?
Does any one know how to do that?
Thanks in advance.
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Vista won't recognize Kaspersky Pure 3.0 security software
My Vista 32 bit Windows security center won't recognize Kaspersky PURE 3.0 software and keeps turning off Windows Defender. I need help please.
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How to scan and detect spying software
I have a friend who caught his landlord in his apartment using his laptop (he moved out afterward). The next time he tried to log in, his password was changed. I fixed the password problem but I got ...
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Can someone recover “permanently” deleted files remotely via wifi?
I'm a newbie and I'm concerned about the safety of the files in my laptop. I recently deleted some confidential files, and I'm wondering if it is possible for someone to access my laptop via wifi and ...
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Removing the “Open File - Security Warning” in windows 8?
I like to study a lot of code from various sources from around the internet, and a big part of that involves downloading and opening the files to view the source code.
Now every time I try to open ...
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Good encryption software(preferably free) that doesn't require data reallocation?
I recently started messing around with encryption software, and TrueCrypt was my first choice. I however found out it has an inconvenient problem: it requires the files to be actually moved to the ...
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Password management at an organization [closed]
In my company we have a largish number of secure logins, currently all stored in a single KeePass database which some of us share the keys to. We'd like to have a more fine-grained, identity-based ...
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How do I keep vim from writing anything to the hard drive?
I would like to temporarily store and manipulate sensitive data in vim. I know it keeps cut and copy registers and swap files on the hard drive, though. If you think about this for a moment, you'll ...
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How to prevent application from writing to disk?
I want to execute an application on my server but I do not want this application to modify any files. I expect the application to read files and to output to stdout/stderr. However, I don't know ...
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Is it safe to load antivirus services after other system services?
Avast! antivirus let me choose whether to load its services before or after other system services.
I noticed that by unchecking that box (and letting avast load first) the system boot hangs and it ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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VLAN & Communication
I'm working on a project regarding Network Security and I've come to the topic regarding VLANs.
I was wondering if it is possible to set up multiple VLANs (VLAN0, 10, 20, 30) in a way that all VLANs ...
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How do I verify the authenticity of a linux system executable?
I'm aware of md5sum and gpg but I have no idea if there are recorded checksums for whatever current version of ubuntu is installed.
Do these get recorded somewhere? Specifically I'm suspicious that ...
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Security for portable disk drive
What's the best approach for securing portable harddrives?
I have a Segate portable drive and I want to secure it incase I lose it.
Any software solutions for this? Thanks.
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Using Command Prompt to create Retina Vulnerability Report CSV
I have scanned several computers on my network which have been flagged as needing certain fixes. I am able to generate reports in Retina fine using the GUI report view, however, I would like to be ...
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How to see which program is sending malicious output traffic with ZoneAlarm?
I recently installed ZoneAlarm on my PC and in computer protection I see some output traffic has been blocked. However, I can't see which program is sending that traffic. How can I identify the ...
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I'm receiving an unusual error when I open up Windows Firewall
Today, when I tried double clicking Windows Firewall through Control Panel, it wouldn't open the window. I also searched for Windows Firewall and was able to access Windows Firewall with Advanced ...
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Can USB 3.0 device initiate communication with USB 2.0 computer?
I want to copy files from a computer with USB 2.0 support to an external drive with USB 3.0 support, but do not trust that the external drive is free of malware. Can a USB 3.0 device initiate ...
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Can changing the date on your computer extend the use of a trial period? [closed]
I've heard that changing the date on your computer can extend the use of a trial for software X.
The idea being that you have a limited license on some software local to the computer. Say Software ...
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Guest area on wireless network
I am setting up a new wireless network using two Mikrotik routers using WDS.
I'm no means a network/wlan expert, but I am going to have several virtual AP's running with different SSID, some with ...
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find out if the server root password is known with php or a bash-script
Is there a way to find out if the shell Ubuntu root password is a certain word?
I deliver an image with a full Ubuntu installation to my customers, that has a certain root password.
I would like to ...
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How can I read spam mail safely in Gmail? [migrated]
Is there a way to see the spam mail contents in Gmail safely?
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Why are Excel macro dangerous?
Can someone explain me why Microsoft Excel 2012 is telling me that accepting automatically every macros is dangerous, I mean how can they be dangerous, for my worksheets, for my entire computer ?
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Win8 automatically added a keyboard layout - is this evidence of a security breach via Remote Desktop?
My problem resembles the one described in this post:
How do I remove automatically added keyboard layouts?
A mysterious French keyboard layout appeared in my keyboard layout list, but is not ...
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How is TrueCrypt in-place system drive encryption implemented?
TrueCrypt supports encrypting a system partition while operating system is running.
From the docs:
Note that TrueCrypt can encrypt an existing unencrypted system
partition/drive in-place while ...
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How report virus/malicious emails [closed]
Every now and then I get an obviously malicious mail with zipped attachments like .com or .exe (My Server doesn't detect the viruses neither)
Those are most likely virus or trojans but my Antivirus ...
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Windows 7 Security setup with firewall
Sorry if this is a repeat, but I have been searching the forums and haven't found an exact answer for my question.
I have had some security concerns on my home network lately so I decided to take a ...
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Stopping unauthorized Windows 7 admin access
I have a problem with people having illegal access to lab computers bypassing strong password protections.
Several computers at my VLSI labs at college have Windows 7 HE installed. Some are ...
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Why Wireshark is not showing high layer packets like ICMP/IP/UDP? (Only broadcast packets are shown)
I am using Wireshark for 802.11g sniffing. The AP is not using any encryption. These are my observations:
The vast majority packets are beacons and the probe requests.
If I filter out beacons using ...
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Best Inexpensive Computer for the Network Security Toolkit [closed]
I want to have a computer monitoring my network with the NST (http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html) and was wondering what the best cheap computer to run it on would be without slowing ...
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Cisco asa 5500 series - Logging VPN connections to easily search connection history [closed]
We have a fresh requirement to log information to do with vpn connections.
The ultimate goal would be facilitating IT management being able to easily review when someone had been connecting / ...
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How do I safely allow unprivileged users to copy files to my server?
I know that I can use rsync over ssh to send files from one Linux computer to another. However, in this case I need to give access to my system to users with a lower level of trust (people who may ...
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security risk of opening up a port to access znc [closed]
I run znc on my home server, and I was thinking about opening up the port for it on the router so I can access znc from my computer at work. My znc accounts are password protected. Is it a substantial ...
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How Unsafe is it to Log in to a Website Using Anonymous Web Proxy?
Let us say that I want to access some sites blocked by the authority for any reason what-so-ever.
I understand that these sites can be accessed, sometimes with limited functionality, using anonymous ...
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Information flow in Linux - how to tell who is currently active and typing?
I'm currently playing a mafia/werewolves game with my cyber-security class.
The basic idea is:
on one machine, the moderator starts a server program
all the players ssh into the machine and launch ...
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Proxy inside SOCKS 5 proxy
There's a secure LAN with a computer in it. This computer is configured with automatic proxy settings. A .pac file is used for this. With this automatic proxy configuration the computer can reach all ...
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Can I run a private Bittorrent Sync central server that replicates data but does not decrypt it?
Bittorrent just announced Bittorrent Sync, which as I understand it is a pure P2P sync solution without a central server that stores your data: Instead, all nodes in the network replicate amongst ...
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Java Security Exception
Okay, so I am working on a card matching game in java for my computer science assignment and it all was going perfectly, until I wanted to open the applet in a page. In eclipse it works just fine..
I ...
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Good VPN Service With Android Support [closed]
I need to be able to access certain Web services (e.g. Skype) via mobile broadband. However, certain providers may block ports which makes this difficult (or impossible). I'm thinking that accessing ...
