Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...
Threat Post

Cryptographers Aim to Find New Password Hashing Algorithm

Passwords are the keys to our online identities, and as a result, they’re also near the top of the target list for attackers. There have been countless breaches in the last few years in which ...
NBC News

In wake of leaks, password scambler author says algorithm 'no longer safe'

With LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm all investigating password leaks, the author of a popular password hash algorithm is urging websites that have more than 50,000 passwords to stop using his program, ...
Bleeping Computer

PHP Adds Support for Next-Gen Password Hashing Algorithm Argon2

PHP got a whole lot more secure this week with the release of the 7.2 branch, a version that improves and modernizes the programming language's support for cryptography and password hashing algorithms ...
Yle

Hashing passwords at 1500 requests per second and beyond

Big interactive live events can pose a lot of challenges for authentication and login services. Learn how the Yle ID team managed to improve their login performance with AWS Lambda and Rust. The Yle ...
Threat Post

With LinkedIn: The Bell Tolls For Simple Password Hashing

This week’s revelations about leaks of user passwords from the professional networking site LinkedIn, dating Web site eHarmony.com and music site Last.fm suggest that even tech-savvy firms are slow to ...
The Business Journals

Password hashing does not guarantee that your data is secure

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