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Sony Pictures Data Leak Reveals Poor Password Practices An analysis of the user database recently leaked from Sony Pictures reveals that consumers have very poor password habits.Last week, the Lulz Security (LulzSec) hacking outfit broke into SonyPictures.com and obtained access to a database containing over one million accounts.The hackers leaked a portion of this databa...	8 June 2011 13:59 GMT

Large User Database Analysis Reveals Interesting Password Habits A self-confessed white hacker who recently obtained access to a user database containing over 870,000 accounts with passwords stored in plain text has decided to do some password strength analysis. The results revealed that a significant percentage of people are still using insecure passwords that can be easily crack...	16 September 2009 08:29 GMT

Email Hack Exposes U.S. Governor's Extramarital Affair South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford faces a lot of pressure, both in his personal and political life, after news broke out of an extramarital affair he was having with a woman from Buenos Aires. Being blamed by the media for the leak, the 41-year-old mistress told an Argentinian news outlet that it was actually the ...	1 July 2009 06:51 GMT

MD5 Passwords Encryption The strength of passwords, as well as their encryption mechanism, is crucial for the security of database driven applications. If you own a website constructed on a ready-made content management system architecture, the back-end administration password will always be protected by using a certain type of encryption m...	26 May 2008 11:17 GMT

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