Alison Kelly

Kerberos vs LDAP - Which is more secure for authentication?

Kerberos vs LDAP LDAP authentication is centralised authentication, meaning you have to login with every service, but if you change your password it changes everywhere. Kerberos is single sign-on (SSO), meaning you login once and get a token and don't need to login to other services. There's a trade-off: LDAP is less…

Cyber Security

Answered Apr 6, 2022 · 617 Views Read answer →

Is SSL secure to use?

Principle of HTTPS operation HTTP protocol is built on top of TCP. TCP guarantees that the data will be delivered, or it is impossible to deliver (target not reachable, etc.). You open a TCP connection and send HTTP messages through it. But TCP does not guarantee any level of security. Therefore an intermediate layer…

Cyber Security

Answered Mar 30, 2022 · 1.1K Views Read answer →

What is ping blocking and how to do it?

How to Break To answer your question about 'how to break' - the easiest way is to use a 'ping' program that uses other protocols than ICMP and/or other options. hping3 is in Backtrack/Kali (you said you used Backtrack/Kali, but hping3 is available for download), and it allows you to use TCP and UDP pings, and it…

Cyber Security

Answered Mar 30, 2022 · 731 Views Read answer →

What's the recent update regarding the website session expiry time?

I've found one recent post publicly advocating extended security session expiry times For low-risk engagements, you can provide better user experience by implementing a longer session limit, which could become the difference between keeping or losing a customer. While Auth0 focuses on making your applications more…

Cyber Security

Answered Mar 25, 2022 · 429 Views Read answer →

OpenVAS vs Nessus, which is better?

A recent test of OpenVAS vs Nessus shows the benefits in using multiple scanners due to the difference in the signatures: Nessus, OpenVAS and Nexpose VS Metasploitable (blog post by Peter at HackerTarget) Out of 15 known security holes in the system used for the test, 4 were spotted by all four tested tools (Nessus,…

Cyber Security

Answered Feb 3, 2022 · 699 Views Read answer →

What does this page that some sites take me to indicate - Checking your browser before accessing?

Most Denial-Of-Service (DOS) attacks rely on some asymmetry between the resources involved on the attacker side and on the target side. In other words, to be successful, a DOS needs an action to require very few resources client-side (so that each client can send a lot of requests) while involving larger resources…

SQL Server

Answered Jan 6, 2022 · 614 Views Read answer →

Can you explain in detail, how to uncover a spoofed number?

When a call is placed into the PSTN, three different numbers are associated with it. The standard caller ID: this is analogous to reply-to: in an email. This can be anything the user desires, and the name is matched from an external database. Calling ANI: This is the phone originating the call, it typically has to be…

SQL Server

Answered Jan 3, 2022 · 512 Views Read answer →

saw the sign of Database Error : SQLSTATE 23000 : Integrity Constraint Violation. Is it a potential malware?

You cannot determine if the parameter is vulnerable to SQLi based on this error alone. For more definitive proof, you need to manipulate the s_id parameter and see if you can get it to return a syntax error. This would indicate that the input of s_id is not being properly sanitized or parameterized. Since the error…

SQL Server

Answered Jan 3, 2022 · 1.6K Views Read answer →

How can you differentiate between stateless vs stateful firewall?

In stateless vs stateful firewall, the stateful inspection allows you to have more control above data streams going through the firewall. A Cybrary article says:Stateless firewalls watch network traffic and restrict or block packets based on source and destination addresses or other static values. They’re not ‘aware’…

SQL Server

Answered Dec 23, 2021 · 1.1K Views Read answer →

What is ServiceMax in Salesforce? What is the need for it? [closed]

ServiceMax Salesforce Built and delivered on the Salesforce1 Platform, ServiceMax is a leading cloud field service software application providing customers a low cost subscription model fully integrated with their salesforce. ServiceMax is a company who builded a solution on top of the Salesforce platform to do field…

Salesforce

Answered Jul 12, 2021 · 1.4K Views Read answer →

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

For permission denied publickey fatal the remote end hung up unexpectedly, if you have the user permission then it works fine but if you don’t have the user permission then you need to add an ssh key to github: For adding an ssh key to github refer:…

Devops

Answered Jun 15, 2021 · 689 Views Read answer →

Difference between Amazon ec2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Elastic beanstalk vs ec2 AWS EC2: EC2 is a service of Amazon which helps you to create and launch servers in the Amazon cloud. These servers are called instances and they are configured behind a load balancer when we create a Beanstalk application With a single instance, we can launch n numbers of instances. You pay…

AWS

Answered Jun 9, 2021 · 2.3K Views Read answer →