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Questions tagged [websecurity]

Below things can be tagged in this Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Local File Inclusion (LFI) Remote File Inclusion (RFI) Remote Code Execution (RCE) PHP Code Injection HTTP Protocol Violation Shellshock Session Fixation Scanner Detection Metadata/Error Leakages Project Honey Pot Blacklist SSL related question Link to learn more https://owasp.org/ Some questions or definitions https://techletterbox.com/2020/02/08/web-security/

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Login Form Password Security

If the following JavaScript code was added into the stackoverflow.com login page then each time a browser clicked login, the form data entered would be sent off a third party website via a post request. I think this may be common on a lot of other…
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Securing an encryption key on the client

I was tasked to beef up security of a website built with use of Angular v15 + JWT. And the first part was to replace login POST-request (HTTPS) from this kind: /api/login?username=user_name&password=pass123 to this…
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How is https more secure than http?

I am trying to understand the difference between https and http. Based on what I have read so far, https is http with encryption. So In a scenario, where a user submits a password form, in case of http, the password will be sent in text based format…
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Phpunit test where store user and password

I'm using Symfony with functional test. I have a login controller where the user sends user&password. The controller checks if the user and password are exist (and if the password is right by password hash). I wish to test it by php unit The problem…
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How to make a self running file?

I have a activity in school about how a hacker might hack your pc without knowing, I was assigned to make a self running file, what I'm trying to do is, when a person for eg. Downloads a file, then without he opening it should already run without…
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