Top "Security" questions

Removing the password from a VBA project

How can I programmatically remove a (known) password from an Excel VBA project? To be clear: I want to remove …

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How do I turn off Oracle password expiration?

I'm using Oracle for development. The password for a bootstrap account that I always use to rebuild my database has …

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How do you Encrypt and Decrypt a PHP String?

What I mean is: Original String + Salt or Key --> Encrypted String Encrypted String + Salt or Key --> …

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encrypt and decrypt md5

I am using code $enrypt=md5($pass) and inserting $encrypt to database. I want to find out a way to …

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Java Error: "Your security settings have blocked a local application from running"

I'm trying to run this simple HelloWorld code written in Java from my browser (Chrome): public class HelloWorld extends JApplet { …

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Why am I suddenly getting a "Blocked loading mixed active content" issue in Firefox?

This morning, upon upgrading my Firefox browser to the latest version (from 22 to 23), some of the key aspects of my …

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Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords?

In Swing, the password field has a getPassword() (returns char[]) method instead of the usual getText() (returns String) method. Similarly, …

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PHP $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] vs. $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], am I understanding the man pages correctly?

I did a lot of searching and also read the PHP $_SERVER docs. Do I have this right regarding which …

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What is token-based authentication?

I want to understand what token-based authentication means. I searched the internet but couldn't find anything understandable.

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How to solve "Kernel panic - not syncing - Attempted to kill init" -- without erasing any user data

I was trying to update libc in our Ubuntu server but it failed and now when I reboot the server …

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