The answer to - Is stylish safe is that https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/ is the original technical write-up that covered the Stylish ordeal. There was a more recent one posted in August by the same author that covers the updated version of Stylish:…
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To use the folder firewall blocker - **Configure and Add rules in windows firewall based on dynamic content (exe files) in that folder: **you should work with PowerShell or command line tools that run everyday. like this : Article Link function Add-FirewallRule { param( $name, $tcpPorts, $appName = $null, $serviceName…
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Alright, BeEF is a framework similar to Metasploit. BeEf uses a javascript hook.js, which when executed by a browser, gives a hook to BeEF. With a hooked browser, similar to metasploit, you have an array of exploits in front of you. Some of them are viewing cookies, browser history to the more sophisticated attacks of…
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8/10 bytes. The standard has always had KSN 10 bytes (80 bits), but allowed smaller values padded on the left with 0xFF, and many people did or do use 8 bytes. I'm not in a position to say there's a clear pattern either way. If any of the devices (or systems) you expect to deal with are limited to 8 bytes, then yes…
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If you get a "[!] Module database cache not built yet, using slow search" error after updating. Once you disconnect the database connection, you can try to reconnect db. 1. msf > db_status 2. msf > db_disconnect 3. msf > db_status 4. msf > db_connect user:pass@127.0.0.1:5432/dbName 5. msf > db_rebuild_cache 6. msf >…
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iFrames can introduce many security issues depending on how they are implemented and where the content is being served. Here are some details on iFrame security options mentioned by Rookallow-forms If this is enabled, iFrames could phish for information, pose as a login form for your website etc. allow-scripts If…
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No Microsoft account security alert certainly not legit! (edit: Maybe!) The phrase "*... accessed the Microsoft account to*****@gmail.com ..."is a red flag. Microsoft would have no knowledge of someone accessing a gmail account. Pay careful attention to the links and don't click on them. They likely don't resolve…
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A secure phone line would indicate that there is encryption in place. This would be similar to how we do encryption in networks using TLS, etc. The line on it's own would not typically be encrypted, but the data flowing over the line would be encrypted. Typically, there is encoding software/hardware built into the…
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Of interest and relevance , the "Pwn2Own" security contest for 2016 has as one of its competitions, escaping from a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. (Others include escaping browser sandboxes or taking over physical machines). That should give an idea that 1) it's at least plausible and 2) if it's easy then we have…
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Sidekick is designed to track emails sent to individual email addresses. Sidekickopen tracks emails by placing an invisible, 1-pixel image inside the message. When the email is opened, the image loads, and Sidekick notifies you that the email was received.
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Previous versions of openssl used a very weak key derivation process to derive an encryption key from the password. Version 1.1.1 of openssl now supports key derivation using PBKDF2 with a randomly generated salt, and multiple iterations (10,000 by default) of sha256 hashing. This answer is based on openssl version…
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The situation - Your router is accessible from the internet can be solved through - Search online for a website that can scan your public IP for open ports for you, or ask a friend to do it for you. In the latter case, search for software for "port scanning", "penetration testing" or so. I would run Nmap (with Zenmap…
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