password database
They never learn password security: Domino Pizza
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-06-18
- Management, breach, Domino Pizza, hash, MD5, password database, passwords, ransom, salt
France and Belgium Domino Pizza password database was stolen by the hackers of Rex Mundi. They require a 30,000 euro payment to avoid disclosure. Well, Domino Pizza went to police, so the 592,000 French and 58,000 Belgian customer records will be in the open tonight. What is interesting though? This is 2014. Do you know what ...
Read MorePassword recovery mechanisms – Part 2
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-05-21
- Technology, authentication, Development, general, guidance, guide, password database, password management, passwords, rules, secondary channel, software design, user information
Passwords remain the main means of authentication on the internet. People often forget their passwords and then they have to recover their access to the website services through some kind of mechanism. We try to make that so-called “password recovery” simple and automated, of course. There are several ways to do it, all of them ...
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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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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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