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Data breach at LinkedIn
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2016-05-26
- Society, breach, break-in, data breach, database, hack, LinkedIn, passwords, stolen
Apparently, there was a serious data breach at LinkedIn and many customer records were stolen including “member email addresses, hashed passwords, and LinkedIn member IDs”. LinkedIn sent out a notification informing that the passwords were invalidated. What is interesting in the note is that they included a cryptic note that the break-in was “not new”. ...
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Cloud security
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-04-27
- Technology, cloud, cloud security, data center, database, file server, mainframe, security, security models, security types, technology, virtual, VM, web server
Let’s talk a little about the very popular subject nowadays – the so-called ‘cloud security’. Let’s determine what it is, what we are talking about, in fact, and see what may be special about it. ‘Cloud’ – what is it? Basically, the mainframes have been doing ‘cloud’ all along, for decades now. Cloud is simply ...
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Speaking of passwords…
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-07-22
- Technology, database, encryption, hash, hashing, howto, Password, password database, password hashing, passwords, rainbow tables, random salt, salt, user information
Wouldn’t it be quite logical to talk about passwords after user names? Most certainly. Trouble is, the subject is very, very large. Creating, storing, transmitting, verifying, updating, recovering, wiping… Did I get all of it? It is going to take a while to get through all of that, do you reckon? Let’s split the subject ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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