• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-10-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ashley Madison coding blunder made over 11 million passwords easy to crack

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however, was painfully disproved by a group of hobbyist ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-10-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ashley Madison coding blunder made over 11 million passwords easy to crack

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however, was painfully disproved by a group of hobbyist ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-10-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on North Korea is likely behind attacks exploiting a Korean word processing program

North Korea is likely behind cyberattacks that have focused on exploiting a word processing program widely used in South Korea, security firm FireEye said Thursday in a report.The proprietary program, called Hangul Word Processor, is used primarily ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-10-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on North Korea is likely behind attacks exploiting a Korean word processing program

North Korea is likely behind cyberattacks that have focused on exploiting a word processing program widely used in South Korea, security firm FireEye said Thursday in a report.The proprietary program, called Hangul Word Processor, is used primarily ... Read More