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What prompts this question is why some Spectre mitigations are considered meaningful on single user workstations or desktops. When a piece of software is trusted by the admin or a user to run on a ...
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I have a desktop application with JavaFX and I need to connect it to the server in a safer way. Right now, the program connects by mysql and FTP without TLS. I've thought to connect it by VPN, but the ...
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I'm responsible for the IT security of a small (~5 users) office, and I'm preparing training materials for our users. Obviously, the first step my users should do if anything seems suspicious is to ...
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As part of a project for school I've been tasked with designing a secure application that should be able to upload and download files from a database. I have very little experience in the area of ...
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I have two desktop apps, each authenticate against our server using OIDC in order to call our web api. Currently the users need to login independently in each application. I noticed when using ...
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Sometime ago I was told by our cyber department that Telegram desktop app is not "safe" as it allows silent installation of programs (first I heard about it, and they could not back it by ...
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Apps like peer2profit, IPRoyal and PacketStream allow you to sell your unused internet bandwidth to others for passive income. Supposedly you could earn about 30 to 75 dollars a month from using these ...
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I am working on a CLI application which gets an API key from the user and use it to authenticate to a cloud application. Once the user authenticated, I want to store the API key somewhere securely so ...
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I have an .efi file with some hardware diagnostic tool like Memtest and I need to provide a security assessment for it. I am wondering, if there are any automated scanners, that can scan .efi files ...
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I know security is pretty important for the web application, but what about windows applications running in a corporate environment, network, not accessible from outside. Do we need to treat security ...
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My project is to find out how to detect HTTPS interception/mitm and create some sort of application using detection techniques. One of the ways I was thinking of is a active desktop application to ...
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I am currently building a Python desktop application in PyQt/PySide which will be compiled to .exe. I am planning to use the Azure SQL database and a remote file storage (like S3). An issue arises ...
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I'm reading the OWASP Authentication Cheat Sheet, but it obviously is focused only on web browser. I'm searching for something similar for a desktop app. I want users to login to a desktop app. The ...
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Is it considered a good security practice to prevent users from easily changing the backend URL of a desktop application that connects to a backend server with an SSL protected HTTP API? One concern ...
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I'm working in a desktop application using Electron.js with React.js and I have to store some sensitive information like API keys and database credentials. So I started digging and decided to encrypt ...
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