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Questions tagged [internet-security]

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How to use the Internet while Heartbleed is being fixed?

There are many websites who are not currently vulnerable, but I have no idea if they were vulnerable a few days ago. For example: twitter.com: Not vulnerable right now, but the certificate is from Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 UTC 2014 google.com: Not…
user148324
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What is the difference between FTPS and SFTP?

Trying to set up a system for my 4 remote employees to transfer files. It has to be secure. Is SFTP better than FTPS? What is the difference?
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How much information can websites get about your browser/PC?

I am trying to determine if the information shown on www.whatsmyip.org is the absolute maximum amount of information that a webserver can obtain from a web visitor. Are there other sites that will be able to get more information from the user…
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How secure is an SSH tunnel or connection?

I have often advised people to use an SSH tunnel to secure their browsing on open WIFIs or in other insecure situations. I was recently asked by a friend how secure a SSH tunnel is after I had suggested SSH tunneling. I stumbled a bit and reiterated…
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Does the "authenticity of host can't be established" message in SSH reflect a security risk?

Whenever I connect to a new SSH server from my computer I get this message: The authenticity of host '[censored]:censored ([0.0.0.0]:censored)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:censored. Are you sure you want to continue…
user869304
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Can an untrusted VPN client monitor my network activity?

My scenario is: This is my own Windows 10 machine. The client has installed a VPN that connects me to their servers. The VPN is auto-connected when my Windows 10 machine is booted up. If I am not on the VPN, I am unable to connect to their…
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Understanding phishing/basic internet security guide, for teens?

I just helped a 13 year-old relative set up a new Windows 7 desktop, making it as secure as I can remember knowing how to. I has been an hour, and he just came to me saying "I seem to have a virus.". It was a website scam showing the big "You have…
Kzqai
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found a bunch of DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot personal certificates installed on my system

I was looking at my personal certificates in Google Chrome and found a bunch of DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot certs there. I don't know how these got there. Should I be concerned?
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Can a website know about my browsing history?

When I visit a website it sometimes puts cookies on my browser. Usually cookies keep track of browsing info from that particular site. If I don't delete those cookies and browse other websites, will the cookies be able to know which site I am…
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Is my network infrastructure visible outside of my wireless router?

I have a wireless router which connects to the Internet. Do external sites and services know that I'm using a router and it is not a final PC? For that matter can external services (and perhaps my ISP) find out that I may be using several devices…
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How to disable internet connection only for some standard user accounts in Windows 7 Ultimate?

There are many users in my machine with Windows 7 Ultimate installed. Some of them are standard user accounts that have no administrative access to the computer. I want them to be unable to connect to the internet because of security issues. How to…
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Firefox: Any way to allow javascript to disable or replace the context menu only to specific domains?

This is something that's commonly abused, so I almost always want it to be off, except when I'm using a handful of large webapps that use the feature properly, such as Google Docs. I know there's a universal toggle for this in the Firefox…
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Internet Options to add Trusted Site Greyed Out - SysPreped Windows 10 LTSB

I just deployed an custom Windows 10 ISO I created and I can't set my local file server as a trusted site in internet options. The site button is greyed out. The only change I made in the image was adding the site pre-sysprep and now It not only…
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Port 2105 Open on Network

After a long time of worrying about my network being secure and finally understanding the basic job of the ports I would see open. I recently noticed port 2103 Zephyr-clt and port 2105 eklogin open on my daughters computer. I asked her if she was…
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Connection to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, etc. compromised via all devices on my home network - How?

I'm a very computer savvy guy (although not very networking savvy), and I may still be wrong about this, but I think my home network may be compromised somehow. I'd like to know if it's possible for someone to have hijacked my network's connection…
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