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[AI summary] An individual attempts to crack 6 million unsalted LinkedIn user passwords using a large dictionary attack tool to demonstrate the critical importance of salting in password security.
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| | blog.ropnop.com

After compromising an OpenNMS server, I recovered salted password hashes. I couldn't find any info online, so I reversed them and wrote a tool to crack them
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| | pboyd.io

Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....
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| | satharus.me

I could talk for the entirety of this post about how connected we are and how much we rely on the internet and technology and all that stuff but I am pretty ...
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