After the Ashley Madison breach, everyone sighed a breath of relief because the passwords were encrypted with bcrypt. Bcrypt, as used by Ashley Madison, hashed the password 4,096 times. That calculation meant that even with fast computers it would take centuries to crack all of them. Until a group of hobbyists – yes hobbyists, not professional […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As researchers continue to review the data dumps from the Ashley Madison breach, there are lessons to be learned from what has been found. While Ashley Madison claimed to have good security, the evidence does not support that. For example, the VPN password from the Internet to their servers was Pass1234, according to one article […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Ashley Madison data is more widely circulated and people have a chance to digest it, consequences are beginning to add up which will have a negative impact on the parent company Avid Life Media, likely for years to come. Granted this is a somewhat unusual situation, so some of the consequences may not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE August 19, 2015 – As I predicted, there are now web sites which allow you to search the Ashley Madison data. Check this Wired article for links: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/check-loved-one-exposed-ashley-madison-hack/ . The hackers who broke into the Ashley Madison web site last month threatened to make the data that they stole public if Ashley Madison’s parent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the Ashley Madison breach, CNN read through the Ashley Madison license agreement. Here are a few tidbits from their reading of the agreement. 1. They can sell your personally identifiable information in connection with the sale of the business or sale of the assets. If this was Facebook, we might not care. If we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Ashley Madison web site, where people go to cheat on their spouses, was hacked last week. This is an interesting situation for a number of reasons. First, a little background. The Ashley Madison web site is owned by Avid Life Media (ALM), which also runs several other web sites – Cougar Life and Established […]
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