If you've ever watched TV and movies about cybersecurity, you probably envision someone sitting in a dark room trying to guess someone else's password based on a few facts like their kids' names or ...

I am having a hard time understanding exactly how salting passwords works in linux, and was hoping someone can help me understand it better. I understand the general concept of cryptographic salt, but ...

At work, we are moving a CRM to a hosted solution. I haven't been much involved in the selection process, but have asked some questions on password hashing that as it turns out we probably should have ...

Forty years ago this month, Robert Morris and Ken Thompson published an article in the monthly journal Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. With those four pages, they created ...

Common password encryption formats used by programs such as Microsoft’s LAN Manager have, since the mid-1990s, been vulnerable to brute force attacks like the infamous l0phtcrack. A brute force attack ...

A random number added to a password to make it more difficult to crack. It is common practice to take passwords and run them through a hashing algorithm and store the results in the login database.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

In the password security arms race, the bad guys are winning. Once-sturdy cryptographic “hashing” algorithms — pillars of online data security — are proving vulnerable to brute force attacks that use ...

EDITORIAL: LinkedIn and eHarmony don't take the security of their members seriously. That's the only clear message resulting from both companies' disastrous password breaches of the past two days, ...