Tag: security
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And now it’s last.fm
Last.fm have had a security breach and advised all their users (such as me) to change their passwords. As with LinkedIn, having passwords hashed may not be enough to keep them secure. I don’t know what has happened here and will refrain from commenting on Last.fm in particular, but one does begin to feel that…
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Why you should change your LinkedIn password
Several million LinkedInpasswords have been stolen and posted online. The fact that they are “encrypted” does not mean they are safe. The encryption – hashing – means that a lone password cracker trying to “brute force” the passwords would probably take a very long time to get through any significant number. But the point is…
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GitHub message confirmed genuine
It seems the GitHub message is genuine, though looking through Twitter suggests there is a lot of unhappiness about the way the message was spread, its timing and its content. Not sending such a message from your own mailservers also looks very foolish to me – checking the headers of a dodgy looking email is,…
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Brokenness of MD5 leads to attack on “The Sun”
News coverage in Britain has been dominated by “hackgate” for several weeks now, the interest only subsiding as the horrific nature of what happened in Norway on Friday became clear. In the middle of all this the website of News International‘s leading daily, the Sun, was taken over by the “LulzSec” crackers – who spent…
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