Vortex level 5 consists in cracking a password hashed with MD5, which is called a preimage attack . No salt was used when applying the hash ...

As reported by several security related online portals , a file with approx. 6.5 mio SHA-1 password hashes from LinkedIn users is currently ...

A while ago I wrote a blog post about what precautions to take handling password data on your website . plaintextoffenders.com is a website...

Passwords are still the only mean of authentication for I'd say 99.95% of all online services including social networking sites, online ...