Another month another password disclosure breach

Another month another password disclosure breach
Adobe has revealed that apparently a password database from connectusers.com was compromised via a SQL injection attack.[1] Ars Technica reports that the passwords were hashed using MD5 (not clear whether they were salted or not).[2] Do we really need to remind you what constitutes a strong password and not to reuse them? Some previous password diaries that might be of interest: Potential leak of 6.5+ million LinkedIn password hashes Critical Control 11: Account Monitoring and Control Theoretical and Practical Password Entropy An Impromptu Lesson on Passwords Password Rules: Change them every 25 years (or when you know the target has been compromised) References: [1] https://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2012/11/connectusers-com-forum-outage-following-database-compromise.html [2] http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/adobe-breach-reportedly-spills-easy-to-crack-password-hashes/ --------------- Jim Clausing, GIAC GSE #26 jclausing --at-- isc [dot] sans (dot) edu I will be teaching next: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques - SANS Tokyo Autumn 2021	Jim 423 Posts ISC Handler Nov 15th 2012
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That might well explain the large number of messages claiming to be from LinkedIn which have evil attachments/links.	KBR 63 Posts
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Looks like they weren't salted. What year is this again? FAIL! http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/15/cracked-passwords-from-alleged-egyptian-hacker-adobe-breachegyptian-hacker-allegedly-breached-adobe-leaked/	KBR 1 Posts
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If a month goes by without a password dump being posted online, THEN it'll be news.	No Love. 37 Posts
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