Security by …
Security by …
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-01-29
- Management, Design, Development, philosophy, security, security by completeness, security by design, security by ignorance, security by isolation, security by obscurity, security type
We know several common buzzwords for determining security strategy of a company (or an individual). Let’s try to define them once again, for completeness sake. Security by ignorance Easily summed up by “what you do not know cannot hurt you” and is obviously wrong. Typically happens at the early stages of software developer’s career when ...
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Common passwords blacklist
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-01-09
- Technology, blacklist, brute force attack, general, Password, password database, password verification, passwords, rules, technology
Any system that implements password authentication must check whether the passwords are not too common. Every system faces the brute-force attacks that try one or another list of most common password (and usually succeed, by the way). The system must have a capability to slow down an attacker by any means available: slowing down system ...
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