Questions tagged [security]
The protection of computer systems and information from threats such as theft or data destruction.
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"Security Alert" certificate in windows, finding the problematic program
You can see I have probably a hundred of these windows stacked up (given the soft shadow now a hard outline). I searched through superuser (here), tried chat GPT, no luck. I am trying to find the ...
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Inactivity limit VS Screen saver timeout GPO Policy
We are trying to decided between, the Computer vs User GPO Policies to force the screen to lock for our user workstations. Both seem to have the same overall effect of evoking the screen saver, ...
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How to manage permissions for IIS sites with 'Authenticated Users' group
Have multiple sites (2) hosted on IIS with PHP. Each site runs under its own application pool, therefore each instance of w3wp.exe (IIS Worker Process) and php-cgi.exe runs under the respective ...
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Windows EFI Partition Not Editable
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How to access efi partition on windows 10?
I have been unable to open the EFI partition by running the commands below:
mountvol
start \\?\Volume{xxxxxxx-ec0e-43ab-...
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How To Automatically Edit Request Parameters In Burp Suite
How can I edit the parameters from the requests that burp suite intercepts and forward them automatically. Like for example in the below snap I want to edit the User-Agent line to some other browse ...
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How to wipe free disk space in Linux?
When a file is deleted, its contents may still be left in the filesystem, unless explicitly overwritten with something else. The wipe command can securely erase files, but does not seem to allow ...
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How can I prevent the Snyk extension in VSCode from scanning code automatically on save?
I am using the Snyk extension in VSCode, and by default, it runs a code scan every time I save a file. This is slowing down my workflow And I only want to scan the code manually.
I have looked through ...
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Windows 10 doesn't remember different RDP auth for different port numbers
I have various RDP configurations pointing to workstations on the same target connection, but using different port numbers. I swear Windows 7 could save different passwords with the connections on ...
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I have not been able to change security permissions on a laptop that I am the administrator of, could Bitdefender be the cause of the issue?
I have not been able to change security permissions on a laptop that i am the administrator of. Could Bitdefender be the cause of the issue?
I am running windows 10 Home on a Lenovo laptop, and have ...
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Can a directory junction in a trusted folder be a trusted mount point in Windows 11?
For example, I have a home directory c:\users\me.
Inside that, I have c:\users\me\Dropbox.
I also have a junction c:\users\me\Cloud -> c:\users\me\Dropbox to indicate that my current Cloud provider ...
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Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 running on port 10234 on my Windows 7 pc?
I've recently set up a home server and spent some time working on the security. One of the tools I've been using nmap which I pointed at my Windows 7 desktop. It showed an unknown service on port ...
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How to prevent programs from reading Chrome data?
I found a program on Github that can easily extract data from the installed browsers with just one command. This includes, localstorage, passwords etc. It doesn't need administrator access.
Is there a ...
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How is Windows XP still vulnerable behind a NAT + firewall?
Everyone knows that Windows XP is highly insecure these days. However, here is an example situation:
Windows XP box is connected to a LAN.
This means the router's firewall is between the XP box and ...
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Accept self-signed certificate system-wide without installing as root CA
For an intranet server I use a self-signed certificate which I want to trust system-wide. I added the certificate exception to Firefox, but this is not possible in Chrome, console applications, IDEs, ....
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How secure are password-protected zip files?
In modern zip utilities like 7zip, you can specify a password when creating a .ZIP file. But, how secure is this? What encryption algorithm(s) are used to secure password-protected zip files?
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