Top "Security" questions

Topics relating to application security and attacks against software.

How can bcrypt have built-in salts?

Coda Hale's article "How To Safely Store a Password" claims that: bcrypt has salts built-in to prevent rainbow table attacks. …

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Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords?

Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords? And since this is a programming site, I'm not literally asking for the …

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Best practices when running Node.js with port 80 (Ubuntu / Linode)

I am setting up my first Node.js server on a cloud Linux node and I am fairly new to …

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Username and password in https url

Consider the URL: https://foo:[email protected] Does the username/password portion in the above example qualify as a "…

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How to deal with a slow SecureRandom generator?

If you want a cryptographically strong random numbers in Java, you use SecureRandom. Unfortunately, SecureRandom can be very slow. If …

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.NET obfuscation tools/strategy

My product has several components: ASP.NET, Windows Forms App and Windows Service. 95% or so of the code is written …

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Are querystring parameters secure in HTTPS (HTTP + SSL)?

Do querystring parameters get encrypted in HTTPS when sent with a request?

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How to secure phpMyAdmin

I have noticed that there are strange requests to my website trying to find phpmyadmin, like /phpmyadmin/ /pma/ etc. Now …

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How to upgrade OpenSSL in CentOS 6.5 / Linux / Unix from source?

How do I upgrade OpenSSL in CentOS 6.5? I have used these commands, but nothings happens: cd /usr/src wget http://…

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How to prevent Screen Capture in Android

Is it possible to prevent the screen recording in Android Application? I would like to develop an Android Secure Application. …

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