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Separate password breaches last week at LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm exposed millions of credentials, and once again raised the question of whether any company can get password security right. To ...

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however ...

I suspect it's a function of "what attack are you trying to mitigate against" and "how much cpu hardware do you have to handle the number of clients you have" Looks like this is precisely what the ...

While the email addresses and usernames are clearly visible in sample records seen by Salted Hash, only some of them have visible passwords (just over 18 million). Because Dailymotion used bcrypt to ...

Cryptographic hash functions are crucial in ensuring the security and integrity of information across diverse industries. They protect sensitive financial transactions in banking, verify data ...

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however ...