Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
October 9, 2017 09:29 am PDT

Discus breached 17.5 million user accounts in 2012, then did everything right about it in 2017

This weekend, we learned that Discus -- the commenting system we once used here on Boing Boing -- suffered a breach in 2012 in which 17.5m user accounts (email addresses, signup names, account activity dates and some unsalted, weakly encrypted passwords) were stolen. (more…)


Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KggbnNGJS4s/salt-your-hashes.html

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article