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How do you check whether the password is strong or not?

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How do you secure IoT devices?

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What are the negative aspects of creating fake security footprints?

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How do I find unused service accounts in Active Directory?

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Can a web server be secured with just a firewall?

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Why trust Nmap's reverse lookup for hostnames during discovery?

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Is there any reason not to salt and hash before using bcrypt?

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How to scan for ports opened by TCP/UDP sockets with Nmap or any other tool?

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Should I allow apps to communicate through Windows Firewall?

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How to exploit LDAP injection?

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How do I remove a service connection point in Active Directory?

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How to map a network passively with Wireshark dumps?

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What's the point of salting Double Submit Cookie (CSRF protection)?

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Should I allow communication on public networks?

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Why do digital signatures need different algorithms?

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Can there be multiple private keys for one public key?

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How do firewalls handle encrypted traffic?

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Why don't we use hash-based digital signatures everywhere?

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Is WebGL a security concern?

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How is the digital certificate sent alongside digital signatures?

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Why use manual testing for web server attacks if scanners can detect vulnerabilities?

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What is the difference between active and passive Digital Footprints?

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How does salting increase security?

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Why do passwords need to be salted?

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How secure is the hashing, salting, and stretching process in this diagram?

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Why don't we use hash-based digital signatures everywhere?

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Does a digital certificate contain a private key?

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How secure is the hashing/salting/stretching process as described in this diagram?

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Why don't digital signatures reveal the sender’s private key?

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Would re-salting passwords regularly in-/decrease security?

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Any reason I shouldn't be salting and hashing before putting through bCrypt?

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Can I protect against password hacking just by salting the previous-hash?

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Is salting a hash more secure than encrypting it?

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Why can I ping a server, but an Nmap normal scan cannot see the host?

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Does obfuscation provide true encryption and is it very secure?

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Is there a reason why legit websites are using this type of obfuscation?

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What are the three most common techniques used to obfuscate data?

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How to spamproof a mailto link?

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How to best obfuscate a built-in key in an application?

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How to avoid key-loggers when authenticating access?

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Is encoding the same as encryption for malware obfuscation?

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Why is XOR used in cryptography?

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What is the response from an open TCP port which is not behind a firewall?

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Which is better: SSH RSA or SSH DSS?

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What is the difference between hashing and masking?

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What are the security risks of expired SSL certificates?

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What is collision resistance in a hash function?

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How is the public key included in the CSR?

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What happens if an SSL certificate is not renewed?

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Is HTTP Authorization header encrypted?

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