Blog May 2011

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Demonstrating the password utilities library        

Before demonstrating the new password utilities library, we interrupt our scheduled programming to bring you the latest offender in end-user personal data storage. Sony's Playstation Network and Qriocity services have recently suffered a major intrusion that exposed personal data for its 77 million users. It's not completely clear from their FAQs, but it appears that the user passwords weren't hashed or encrypted, but instead stored in plain text. This makes the Sony rootkit fiasco positively tame in comparison. Read more

03-May-2011 23:55