Questions tagged [security]
For questions relating to cryptography and IT security. This can be computer, network, or database security.
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Should usernames and passwords to external systems be documented?
This is basically an extension to my previous question. That time our internal discussions didn't end up anywhere and the whole issue was forgotten for the time being.
Now we've touched upon it again,...
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Is it more secure to use more PKI keys?
Consider a token issuer/validator. Every token is PKI signed.
Is it more secure to use a new key-pair (performance could be ignored for now) per request or is it no difference to have only one key-...
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How to safely allow different end users to insert data into a table stored in an Oracle database?
This is a basic question, but I don't have any sense of what other developers do in this scenario.
The Situation
I am creating an interface to allow end users to insert and update data in a table ...
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Readable SNMP Information
In My Qualys Vul scanning report i got that SNMP information is readable strong text.
So please help me to understand, what is the meaning of this vulnerability and how can i fix it.
QID: 78030
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Is my microservices architecture in line with best practises? (STS/SPA/Frontend API/Backend services)
My goal is to make an application with a SPA front end that updates in real time, incorporating microservices architecture (and for solutions CQRS design patterns and eventing with Azure Service Bus).
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Is is bad practice to use non-standard ports? (for example ssh from 22 to something different) [migrated]
Background is that I am learning some technical stuff with the Enki App. In this case about security. The App states that it is a misuse of a port if I change for example the ssh port from 22 to ...
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Breaking 3-tier architecture into multi-tier architecture
Recently I have been working on a rather large system with Vue.js for a single page app (SPA) and an API for the backend. The customer is concerned with the security, performance and maintainability.
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Best approach to creating a secure offline login system in C#?
I'm rather new at programming so I'm still getting a grip on things.
I'm creating an offline login system in C# that will have the ability add/remove users. The computer will not be connected to the ...
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Critical dependency is preventing me from updating my app to latest framework version
My project relies on a specialized component which is stuck (by its configuration) to an older version of the framework my project is using. This makes updating to the latest version of the framework ...
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If passwords are stored hashed, how would a computer know that your password is similar to the last one if you try resetting your password?
If passwords are stored hashed, how would a computer know that your password is similar to the last one if you try resetting your password? Wouldn't the two passwords be totally different since one is ...
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How @RolesAllowed annotation is workin in Java [closed]
I know that @RolesAllowd annotation can be used to provide role-based access control to REST endpoints and I am currently using that with RestEASY.
I need to know how it is working behind the scenes....
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Custom ACL Implementation
I have been trying to figure out an ACL solution for my application which should manage API endpoint's access rights dynamically. Some said that I have an option of Spring Security ACL. I checked it ...
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Is there any risk in creating a SSL certified site?
I was hired to program a basic, plain text site for a local business that amongst other things, provides basic pricing quotes through a Javascript Applet. For obvious reasons, it seemed unnecessary to ...
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How to manage model(s) between web client (DMZ) and web API?
I have this web API project which handle all database access via entity framework.
I have another web client reside in DMZ to call those APIs (via ajax or c#) in the web API project.
When I make API ...
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Allowing a dynamic list of IP addresses to access a specific port in an AWS EC2 Instance
The problem I am trying to solve today is DDoS. I am working on a game project which is hosted on a TCP port (7777). The game is known to have a community full of idiots (pardon the language) that do ...
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Do i need to implement Security for my webpage, if it is only connected to a LAN
I am making a websocket server that can communicate with clients.
This server is going to be on a private vLAN channel on a public place, AKA only the staff have access to the network which the ...
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Security Issues with RESTful Authentication & Session Management
I'm trying to implement authentication and session management for a microservice. In order to do the process RESTfully, I understand that I'll need to use some kind of token-based authentication to ...
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How to process a login form data?
I have created a login form for my website, but the issue is how to process the data provided in the form by the uses.
You see, I can't just write a basic function like this one -
myfunction(){
if(...
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Single Sign On Logout Strategy
I have been working on a project that integrates spring-cloud-based microservices and MVC applications with SSO. currently, I use spring-session for the session repository service. My current ...
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Web Security (PHP) - Is it Secure to do downloading files & presenting with Headers to the End User ?
I have security question that i am not sure if this approach is safe and secure way to download a file and present to a web user ?
We have customers invoice files stored in a server location (...
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How to create secure desktop installer that doesn't trigger a virus alert for unknown exe?
When I created a c# desktop application and move the exe file to another computer that has anti virus security, the security program shows an alert as unknown exe. I want to create a desktop ...
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Is X-Script an issue only for public web pages?
I'm struggling with X-Script attacks. I think I understand what they are but it's unclear if they only affect public facing web pages (which I will define better).
The example I often see is where ...
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How can a headless client securely know the API version of a multi-instance backend?
I'm working in a scenario where I have a backend (let's call it the server) and a frontend client app (let's call it the client).
The client is entirely headless, and can connect to any instance of ...
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How to safeguard a COTS REST API with on-premise servers for approved client apps only?
Goal: Prevent unauthorized 'clone' apps from using REST API-based solutions where the customers manage their own servers and services instead of the vendor doing so (database, resource, and identity). ...
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Securing e-commerce administrator panel with a VPN
I am developing the back-end of an e-commerce system, which has customer and administrator type accounts. These two roles do not overlap, administrators are there to do the back office work, while ...
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Security and performance considerations when creating chat system on a Flask backend
I am building a website with the Flask framework. One functionality of the site will be that users can send messages to each other.
I created a prototype of this using Flask WTF forms. The basic ...
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How to avoid pushing Github Enterprise code to my personal Github account by mistake if both are configured in my work computer?
Setting the debatability of using personal accounts on the workplace aside.
Context:
The company I work for is dedicated to creating apps for other companies. Because of this we have many different ...
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Why not put TLS certificate in DNS responses?
The security of a TLS connection relies on trusting the CA's certificate, which in turn, is usually actually a proof of DNS entry ownership. Even though the server operator may request a certificate ...
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Storing File URI and Checksum to check if the file was changed in future
right now application is storing a file data in database and we are considering instead to store a link (http, ftp, etc) to the file and its checksum. We will only provide a service and the service ...
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Should I separate the REST sessions from the sessions in the rest of the application?
Assuming I have resources I restrict access to with a username + password login in my web application and in my REST API. Should I keep different sessions for both meaning that a login via the web UI ...
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Mitigate a hacking attempt when it is detected by an app sitting behind a WAF
Let's say I have a web application where my users can log in, and save resources through my API and an ajax call. Now let's say I put my web application behind a Web Application Firewall (like ...
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Password manager inside application
Firstly this is not about how to store password for access to the application itself. That is handled using .Net Identity. Authentication is handled using JWT. So it is a web application.
The problem ...
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Best practice for sensitive information in source control
I know this topic has been covered quite a lot but I can't find an answer to my specific situation.
Currently, I'm using .gitignore to exclude sensitive content and keeping it (config files, etc) ...
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How do you ensure external dependencies aren't a security risk?
We use quite a few external open source libraries in our projects, pulled in from Maven Central etc.
I was wondering what is best practice to ensuring that you don't introduce some sort of security ...
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Should we store JWTs in database?
While creating/assigning the JWTs to users, should we also store them in our databases?
The negatives/cons of storing tokens in database would be, that all the data in the payload of the JWT token is ...
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Should access permissions and roles be included in payload of JWT?
Should information about the permissions and roles of the client be included in JWT?
Having such information in JWT token will be very helpful as everytime a valid token comes, it would be easier to ...
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How to implement linkedin authentication/data sharing with multi party?
Hi I am working on application 2.
My application interacts with application 1 and 3.
Clients of application 1 need to be to share their linkedin profile information with application 3.
I have ...
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Strategy regarding an (almost always) offline app
I'm currently in internship in a software/app development company, where I have to come up with an idea about how can we handle the fact that the user will mostly use an app offline.
Basically, the ...
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Is it a good idea to reload the page every few failed login attempt?
I was reading about bruteforce login attack and one of the solution to prevent users from trying too many passwords in short amount of time is to add exponential delay for every failed login. But ...
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How to pass credentials to client
When installing application on client's server at the end of the project, how to give admin's password to client? (On paper, by word?) Client may not be very technical so script generating password ...
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token authentication security best practice
So I'm trying a few token based authentication in Laravel, each user have token they can use to access certain database. But there is something I still don't understand from these tutorial. The ...
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Do I need to secure communications between microservices in a cluster?
So, let's say I have a standard set up for application, that is:
- split into micro services
- and is running in a cluster (kubernetes or docker swarm, I guess specific implementation does not matter, ...
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How much damage can a rogue PHP developer do?
It's often convenient to hire a remote contractor for front-end development. Frameworks, like Laravel, use PHP to render front-end so it would make sense to give the front-end developer rights to edit ...
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How far do you go in server-side validation of POST/GET requests?
Our application had a few vulnerabilities detected by AppScan and we had to add server-side validation to catch SQL injection attempts.
But my question is, how far do you go in server-side ...
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How to make a secure web-app account system?
i have some experience (mostly as a student) with react and redux, and on the other hand i also have some experience with express, normally for my apps (all of them are really simple) i make a rest ...
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Store password in open source project
I have a fairly simple problem currently but I cannot get a solution, maybe someone here has a good idea.
I am working on an open source CMS for artists called Jinya CMS. The whole project originated ...
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OAuth2 authorization and storing users to custom storage
My question is relating to securing API with Google OAuth2 authorization and multiple clients.
But I also want to store users to my own storage so I can have additional info about them. So when the ...
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What technical documentation to share and not to share to a wide public?
I work as a backend developer in a financial organisation and the organisation has demanded that we migrate all our technical documentation (e.g. info about batches like the names and their scheduling ...
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Designing authentication and authorisation micro service
Background:
There are three different applications A, B and C and they all share same user details but I had to implement authentication in each of them which was duplication of effort.
After some ...
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Architecture for a secure server control panel
Currently I am working on an open source server control panel similar to cPanel, Plesk but I am not sure what would be the best approach to make system changes which require root permissions.
I was ...
