Tag: Bcrypt
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Bcrypt and a Short History of Password Hashing
The following article is a brief history of password hashing and the password cracking software keeping pace with the algorithms. Before …
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Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into …
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Bouncy Castle Bug Puts Bcrypt Passwords at Risk
A high impact vulnerability has been discovered in a popular Java cryptography library which could allow attackers to more easily brute …
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BlowFish, the Only Way to Secure Your Passwords
I work in ForEx, one of the largest markets in the world, averaging 5.1 trillion dollars worth of trades on a daily basis. My employer also …
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Hackers Dump 2.2M Gaming, Cryptocurrency Passwords Online
The passwords and other personal data of more than 2.2 million users of two websites were revealed online as the result of data breaches …
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XKCD forums breached
The forum for the techie-darling comic strip XKCD was still offline on Monday afternoon after Troy Hunt’s breach site, Have I Been Pwned, …
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Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet …
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Storing Passwords Securely With Bcrypt and Java
Storing passwords are not something easy to come up with when we need to satisfy all the data protection laws, and it is getting even …
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Twitter advises all users to change passwords after glitch
If you’re one of 330 million-plus Twitter users, you should change your password now. This is after the social network’s chief …
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330 Million Twitter Users are Urged to Change Passwords after the Twitter Bug Exposed Them in Plain Text
Twitter urges all of it’s 330 Million users to change the password immediately after a Twitter bug identified in their internal system …
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