Questions tagged [support]
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This is not my account- everything is messed up- could a moderator please help
I am security_paranoid
security_paranoid is my only account. My name is Harvey.
But let me catch you up to speed.
A few days ago, I contacted StackExchange through their help centre, because I was ...
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My question was labeled Off-Topic. Why?
I have a question about my Information Security Stack Exchange post: How can I go about reporting a data breach in my private network without compromising my personal/private network data
I don't ...
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Why are there so many already answered 3-10year old posts in the active feed?
Why are there so many 3-10year old posts that are already answered like some years ago in the active feed?
For example I saw posts like this recently
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Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close
I voted to close a question on the basis that it's asking for assistance writing malware. An admin seems to disagree strongly with my characterization of the behavior as malware, and:
deleted the ...
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Practical security question only results in more questions and downvoting [closed]
My question went wrong Emails about bank are either scam or a mistake
And, completely inconsistent, an almost identical question was accepted Sent text by bank I don’t have an account with- Is this a ...
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How can I salvage my question after it got "lost in migration confusion"?
I have a question about my Information Security Stack Exchange post: I have been a victim, but of what?
This is the timeline of what happened to my question:
Tuesday, 03:20 PM: I wrote a question on ...
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Are questions about metrics on topic?
One of our supplier suffered a cyberattack and I'm writing a report on how we handled the situation. I plan to include some metrics I judge useful (eg: time taken to inform the relevant personnel). ...
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Should I ask questions concerning tips on how to launch Penetration Testing company?
I am planning to launch a pen test company and several questions have arisen (e.g what NIST documents should I study, how to properly report vulnerabilities to clients and more).
I would like to ask ...
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I'm weirdly blocked on Meta
I'm yyyyyyyan and this is not my primary account. I created this account so I could post this here, because I couldn't figure out what to do.
A few days ago I tried to ask a question about email ...
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Closure of "How to “unprotect” malicious workbook without knowing password"
I had some questions about why my post was closed and I thought I would come here for answers and clarification of site rules and closing criteria.
My question,How to "unprotect" malicious ...
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How can be this question about VPN design either security architecture improved?
I am new to information security. According to Wikipedia NSA hacks actively on IPSec to design attacks but does it mean TLS based VPN is less flawable?
I wanted to understand comparability of both ...
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Why can the "Community" bot approve suggested edits?
I recently came across this suggested edit, which I had rejected for being insubstantial. When I later looked at how others had reviewed the edit, I saw that the Community user apparently approved ...
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Serial downvoter on security SE?
Today I flagged several comments on my old deleted question. ~2h later I got downvotes for several old, downvoted questions. Is this some sort of serial downvoter?
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search-operator to use in an advanced search that filters for a Q/A length equal to the specified amount of characters
I'm aware there are advanced search operators like isaccepted: looking for accepted answers in questions, answers: if the question has answers, and score: to look for post with a score of 1+.
I also ...
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Question deleted because of "product recommendations". But this was the only way to answer the question
My question was closed because of "product recommendations". The suggestion is "describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve".
I described my problem I tried to solve, and ...
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How did this post got activity before it was posted?
A question on the main site by the title of "Has it been mathematically proven that antivirus can't detect all viruses?" seems to have gotten some activity even before being posted. According to the ...
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Which question guidelines exist on security stackexchange?
It seems that one should avoid question about cyber security tools (Since it is very opinion based. But is it allowed to ask about how specific popular tools work?), no code reviews, obviously no ...
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When will my BoA expire?
I'd recently post answers but i think i didn't fully understood or overlooked the question, however when will this ban expire? If you need 50rep to comment, and answering is not possible.
BOA = BAN ...
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Are there any Review audits?
Are there any Review audits like on Stack Overflow? I already did some reviews but never had an audit in First Posts or Late Answers, so I wanted to ask if here are also review audits in the different ...
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Answers removed from question
This is regarding the following post:
Content-Security-Policy hash of script
OP states the following and then goes on to show examples.
I've toyed with this for over an hour but still am unable ...
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How do I self close vote on my own question?
My this question is no longer in the scope since the service has become obsolete. So, I just found that someone has already voted to close the question as off-topic with good reason:
I'm voting to ...
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Is there an "analog" type of tag?
I just asked a question regarding old fashioned paper, ink and handwriting.
I notice that there are many other questions on the site concerning "analog" information security, such as involving ...
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What rep is required to edit / propose an edit on a question?
What is the required amount of reputation required to edit a question? I'm not referring to the 2,000 rep style of edit, I'm referring to the propose an edit feature where it has to be peer reviewed ...
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Can you help me rephrase my question?
Why can't we fix identity theft?
Your moderator is rather argumentative and doesn't seem to want to help me fix the question.
I can't ask the question in any more detail (because I don't ...
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It is possible to create an MQTT tag?
It is possible to create the MQTT tag?
There are some questions about MQTT but not a tag...
Description from stackoverflow tag:
MQTT - a light on the wire protocol for publish/subscribe. Clients ...
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This looks like spam notice
I've written a long question, which included own research and my own conclusions so far.
When posting, the site gives me an error: "This looks like spam". No description of why it looks like spam.
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Banned from flagging with only 8 declined out of 227
I have just gotten the notice that I am banned from flagging. I have raised 227 flags and have only had 8 declined. In the last week, 3 of my flags have been declined. One I can understand the answer ...
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How did I manage to flag this question twice?
I flagged this question as primarily-opinion based however, it is now showing that I flagged it as a duplicate:
along with the original flag.
What is happening here?
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What caused this post to bump to the front page?
I was browsing the front page and this post showed up as "Modified 1 hour ago". I almost replied thinking it was an active post, but it's from 2016 and there doesn't seem to be anything new on it. ...
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How to migrate to Ask Ubuntu?
There's a new question which is asking how to run sudo ./some-script.sh on Ubuntu. It's off-topic here, but Ask Ubuntu seems like a perfect fit.
However, when I go to flag it for a close vote, I don'...
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What did happen to my suggested edit?
Yesterday, I saw a post containing BS words. So, I suggested an edit with these words removed and appropriate words used.
Here is the link for that suggested edit. And here is the link of that post.
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What is up with these answers? Are these all the same people?
A question was asked by a new user two hours ago asking if the strange SMS he received was evidence of the DoD attacking him (the message was of an IP address which is linked to the DoD, along with a ...
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Why was this post auto-flagged?
https://security.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/116392
It says it was flagged because of length and content, but I doubt that: the post has seven downvotes (fairly unusual here) and the ...
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Why is the accepted answer only sometimes at the top?
From what I remember, Sec.SE sorts answers based on the net vote score. If an answer is accepted, it is moved to the top automatically. In fact a question I asked became a hot network question. I ...
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Is the security.SE blog still alive or not? Is BlogOverflow itself dead?
It looks like there is a Security blog with great articles, but it has a banner at the top that says it is an archive. When you click on the banner, however, the About page it leads to has nothing to ...
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Bounty not awarded?
For reference, this is the question, in well, question.
The originally poster of the question created the bounty about a week ago. I quickly saw it and put some effort into the answer since a.) I ...
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Sec.SE is difficult to navigate with SVG disabled
I use Tor for browsing the internet. Tor comes with a Firefox-based browser specifically designed to enhance security and anonymity. One of its features is the security slider, which has three presets ...
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How to revive an old question
So let’s say I post a question and it doesn’t get answered, drifting into oblivion.
Is there a way to pump some new life into it, or do I have to delete it and post it again?
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Is my question better for Unix or this place?
I wonder how a Linux system can comply with "payment card industry security standard" https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
For instance if there is a specific ...
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BitDefender blocking Sec.Se [closed]
Heads up.
BitDefender on Mac is preventing people from accessing this site. People get this warning:
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Duplicate question with different focus
My question would be similiar/equal to
How to secure an open wifi access point
I do understand that an insecure public hotspot is exactly that, insecure (at least from the user perspective).
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Serial voting was reversed? Static or relative threshold?
I read one answer that stated not to ask about this on the meta site, within 48 hours. But I don't know how else to contact a moderator. And also I think it might be a bug.
I lost 35 reputation ...
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The profile image in flair for IS is missing
I just noticed that my IS flair is missing the profile image.
All other flair, including my meta has the image.
I didn't observe closely, so I can't say if it disappeared at the same time as the SE ...
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Why is my edit attributed to another user?
I recently tried to edit a question and someone else beat me to the punch. I reviewed their edit and felt like my edit would further improve their edit, so I resubmitted my edit. After resubmitting my ...
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Can I ask for help with identifying malware?
One of my servers was recently infected with malware (due to the datacentre's service account being compromised, but it's also my fault for not securing the server properly). It has been eradicated ...
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Why does the Community user on Meta has 3 reputation?
The Community user on Meta has 3 reputation. Isn't it supposed to have 1 reputation?
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1 point deducted when I down voted an answer
I guess I am missing a point here. So I down voted an answer and now this answer has -3 reputation. Can somebody explain why my point is deducted? This is the link
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Community user spam detection failure
I was asking about RetroShare security issue. Community user robot locked and deleted my message quickly. Why? Someone suggested, because of spamming, but this is not spam and also how could it detect ...
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Relevant category for questions about the hardware
I'm newbie and I have a question regarding the hardware. The question is indirectly linked to security, but most of it relates hardware: about routers, wi-fi, wi-fi boosters, etc.
Can you please tell ...
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Is there any way to refocus a question in the question list?
I have a two related questions:
If a question goes for a long time unanswered, what can we do to get more attention brought to it?
If it goes on for too long unanswered, can we republish the question ...
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