The answer to - how is an ATM secure is that - An ATM is secure in the same way all physical security works: your house door lock or a bank vault. It's not "impenetrable to everything", it's just not penetrable in a time allowing to grab the loot and escape. Indeed it is simple risk-reward analysis. A house in a "nice…
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Answered Mar 29, 2022
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In IPSec transport mode, only the IP payload is encrypted, and the original IP headers are left intact. It also allows devices on the public network to see the final source and destination of the packet. With this capability, you can enable special processing in the intermediate network based on the information in the…
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Answered Mar 29, 2022
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How to detect man in the middle attack? Depends on the type of system being attacked and the type of attack. Say some sophisticated attacker has gotten control of a router upstream between you and the internet in general and redirects your traffic to fake servers under their control for a MitM (e.g., captures DNS…
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Answered Mar 28, 2022
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From Veracrypt vs Truecrypt Use VeraCrypt.As of September 26th 2015, google's security researchers found a couple of vulnerabilities that affect TrueCrypt 7.1a and VeraCrypt 1.14 they are CVE-2015-7358 and CVE-2015-7359On September 26th, 2015 VeraCrypt released 1.15 which fixes those vulnerabilities. On October 17th,…
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Answered Mar 28, 2022
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You asked - Which of these is a vulnerability of mac address filtering The answer is - While the duplicate that people have linked to does cover most of the story, there's actually a way to make MAC filtering work: enable client isolation.Client isolation prevents individual WiFi clients from communicating with each…
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Answered Mar 25, 2022
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Stream vs block cipher A block cipher is a versatile algorithm which implements a key-dependent permutation of values which are sequences of a fixed number of bits (called "blocks"). It can be used for various roles in many kinds of cryptographic protocols. One such role is bulk encryption of long streams of data; to…
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Answered Mar 25, 2022
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CRTM is saved in the Platform Configuration Registers (PCR), register 0 to be more precise (PCR-0). CRTM is (physically) embedded into chip silicon and provided by the BIOS, but is a logical part of the TBB (Trusted Building Block). The measurement itself is stored in PCR0. In order to fully understand how CRTM works,…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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Compared to other IP protocols ICMP is fairly small, but it does serve a large number of disparate functions. At its core ICMP was designed as the debugging, troubleshooting, and error reporting mechanism for IP. This makes it insanely valuable so a lot of thought needs to go into shutting it down. It would be a bit…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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This is an answer from Microsoft received in 2020 regarding the Microsoft smartscreen: It seems the most important advice is to get the new code signing certificate before it expires. So the new one has time to gain a reputation. Last time I got the new cert to get a reputation in about 30 days. To give you some…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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What can someone do with your name and address and phone number in order to perform "identity theft" largely depends on what you're qualifying as "identity theft". Regardless of this, it also depends upon what a given service provider requires for identification & authentication when someone contacts them for service…
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Answered Mar 22, 2022
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I've just received a similar account update Amazon notification and the email appears legit. I was searching for information on what list it would be to know what else might have been affected. It has the right headers in authentication: Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of…
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Answered Mar 22, 2022
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I was wondering whether Windows Updates could be the reason for you receiving the message - port scan detected. We have people working in shared locations and I see these: Firewall Blocked Scan Port Source IP: FE80:0000:0000:0000:F812:4A2D:648A:0E45 Firewall Blocked Scan Port Source IP: 172.16.101.168 Firewall Blocked…
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Answered Mar 22, 2022
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