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After PSN. Who's next?
phitsc:
http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notification.html
zridling:
I don't get it. What am I reading here, could you clarify?
ewemoa:
It sounds like LastPass is saying they may have had a breach -- PSN is a reference to the recent SONY incident, perhaps?
Renegade:
Ouch.
When I worked at ESTsoft, they got around that problem entirely in ALPass Online.
Instead of storing salt and the like, the database had strong encryption and was only ever decrypted on the client. (IIRC) If you ever forgot your password, you were screwed though because YOU were the only one that ever had access to it. As such, warnings were BIG and LOUD. :)
phitsc:
I don't get it. What am I reading here, could you clarify?
-zridling (May 05, 2011, 05:25 AM)
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Yeah, sorry about being a bit woolly here. Like ewemoa said: PSN is Sony's Playstation Network which was hacked a week or two ago. Basically, 77 million user's private data including password and possibly credit card information was stolen.
The message about LastPass just reminded me that, assuming Sony's IT guys are not complete idiots, what could happen to them could happen to others as well.
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