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How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
clemo1:
I use 'Key Scrambler' but it only scrambles and decodes against keyloggers.
Deozaan:
http://lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords-app103 (April 01, 2010, 06:14 AM)
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Oh the Irony! My LifeHacker (Gawker) account was just compromised, and the login details were used to get into my (old) Gmail account and send spam to everyone in my contact list.
wreckedcarzz:
Oh the Irony! My LifeHacker (Gawker) account was just compromised, and the login details were used to get into my (old) Gmail account and send spam to everyone in my contact list.
-Deozaan (December 14, 2010, 04:34 AM)
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:( can you recover them? Recovery questions and whatnot? Or get a new password via the 'forgot your password?' system?
mouser:
Once again app103 alerted us ahead of time, and if you had listened to her you would be safe.
Lesson: LIST TO APP103 when she posts something!
Eóin:
Interesting little note: How To Safely Store A Password.
A modern server can calculate the MD5 hash of about 330MB every second. If your users have passwords which are lowercase, alphanumeric, and 6 characters long, you can try every single possible password of that size in around 40 seconds.
And that’s without investing anything.-http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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