hashing – PossibleThreat Articles

Serious Security: MD5 considered harmful – to the tune of $600,000

November 30, 2022 0 Comments cnil, Cryptography, edf, hashing, Law & order, MD5, pbkdf2

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:58:49 +0000

It’s not just the hashing, by the way. It’s the salting and the stretching, too!

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

August 8, 2022 0 Comments brute force, crack, Cryptography, data loss, dictionary attack, hashing, password, salt, Slack

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:14:38 +0000

“When those invitations went out… somehow, your password hash went out with them.”

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OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support

February 19, 2020 0 Comments 2fa, cryptographic keys, Cryptography, fido, fido u2f, hashing, openssh, passwordless login, Privacy, sha-1, ssh

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:00:53 +0000

OpenSSH version 8.2 is out and the big news is that the world’s most popular remote management software now supports authentication using any FIDO (Fast Identity Online) U2F hardware token.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/sDQy3vGdNuw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images

January 9, 2020 0 Comments Apple, ces, child abuse imagery, child porn, consumer electronics show, hashing, icloud, image matching, jane horvath, Law & order, photodna, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:22:36 +0000

It isn’t new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy’s intact – unless you’re dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z3fh0bRjivU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Mixcloud user accounts up for sale on dark web

December 3, 2019 0 Comments data breach, data loss, hashing, mixcloud, Privacy, ransom, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:47:34 +0000

A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/p_oZM1G0w4I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code

October 14, 2019 0 Comments hashing, ken thompson, password hack, passwords, Privacy, unix

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:45:15 +0000

Old passwords never die… they just become easier to decode.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_6ksZGv5hWM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

October 2, 2019 0 Comments breach, data breach, data loss, draw something, gnosticplayers, hashing, omgpop, online games, passwords, Privacy, salt, salting, security threats, sha-1, sha1, words with friends, zynga

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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XKCD forums breached

September 3, 2019 0 Comments bcrypt, breach, correcthorsebatterystaple, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, hashing, MD5, phpBB, salting, security threats, vulnerability, xkcd

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:17:58 +0000

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YDE5xjmhFxY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>