So... if you had the bcrypt hashes, knew what the salt value was, and had a collection of commonly used passwords, how difficult would it be to identify any user of ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The Ashley Madison hack has been nothing short of a disaster. Among the gigabytes of data leaked from ...

The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in ...

It’s kind of a random pairing—I get it—but two new websites have joined ‘have i been pwned’s’ illustrious list of breached sites. One is a cryptocurrency wallet and the other is a RuneScape bot. These ...