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Old 2013-02-02, 13:37   Link #26141
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The issue isn't one of "guessing" passwords, it's when lists of hashed passwords are compromised and are reversed using brute force.
It's actually pretty difficult to reverse a SHA1 or SHA256 hash. A much more common tactic is to use "rainbow tables" which provide the hashes for common sequences which are then compared against the list of captured hashes to identify matches. Since most people choose poor passwords this technique can find a lot of matches in a short period of time. Random "salts" can make this method less effective, but who knows how good the developers are who wrote the initial hashing function for some web application. With so many high-profile sites being compromised, it makes me think many development teams do not include a security expert in their midst.

RSA has been working on algorithms that cut a password into pieces and store the pieces on separate servers. Most small-time web sites won't go to those extremes, but it ought to be de riguer for large-scale organizations like Facebook and Twitter which already maintain hundreds of servers.
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Old 2013-02-02, 13:56   Link #26142
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It's actually pretty difficult to reverse a SHA1 or SHA256 hash. A much more common tactic is to use "rainbow tables" which provide the hashes for common sequences which are then compared against the list of captured hashes to identify matches. Since most people choose poor passwords this technique can find a lot of matches in a short period of time. Random "salts" can make this method less effective, but who knows how good the developers are who wrote the initial hashing function for some web application. With so many high-profile sites being compromised, it makes me think many development teams do not include a security expert in their midst.

RSA has been working on algorithms that cut a password into pieces and store the pieces on separate servers. Most small-time web sites won't go to those extremes, but it ought to be de riguer for large-scale organizations like Facebook and Twitter which already maintain hundreds of servers.
Yes, that is true if you're looking to hack "right now" but those rainbow tables have to come from somewhere. I was talking mostly of what the end goal of these hacks are and that is to add more hashes to the pool that ultimately gets cracked and added to said rainbow tables.

Bottom line is: no password is safe indefinitely. Pick good hard to crack ones, don't re-use them and change them regularly.
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Old 2013-02-02, 14:26   Link #26143
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^ FYI, Bill Gross is one of the co-founders of PIMCO, one of the largest fixed-income investment funds in the entire world. He personally manages PIMCO's "Total Return Fund" the world's largest mutual fund. His words move markets and governments ..

Risk Assets: We can see right now that the low (read: zero real) interest rate environment has propped up the prices of risk assets. So we are right now seeing that risk assets are generating returns close to the bounds of sanity. For example: HYG - this is an index of U.S. high yield bonds is yielding 6.5%. (see: record-low high yield rates -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/splevera...cord-low-6-11/)

Japan Comparison / Stagnant Growth Conclusions: A major concern is that so many liquidity (read: cash, money) is being injected into the system to continue to prevent deflation, that you have dollars chasing investment opportunities. Each additional dollar is getting put into decreasingly profit ventures, this is an issue that has been raised about non-competitive industries, which results in decreasing "real growth" per dollar invested (as well as the continuing survival and expansion of non-competitive industries and businesses) (also see: China's government owned banks vis-a-vis historical Japanese lending standards)

I'm in restructuring, so in this environment, we call it "Extend and Pretend" (play on Amend & Extend) .. Right now, the ominous headwinds portend to the worst case scenarios being people will either stop believing (Boom!) or continuing dragging it along (Stagflation!) (Personal OP that is obviously groundless and uninformed)
Yikes!
Looks like its time to "batton down the hatches, to weather the worst" as it were.
Thankfully my money is all tied up in actual assests (that make money) at the moment.
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Old 2013-02-02, 14:56   Link #26144
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Bottom line is: no password is safe indefinitely. Pick good hard to crack ones, don't re-use them and change them regularly.
I wish more sites let you use longer passwords than the 8-15 characters that seems to be the norm. My wifi router uses a complete sentence. Considering that the passphrase is going to be hashed anyway, and the hash is likely to have a known fixed length, why restrict the length of passwords at all beyond a reasonable minimum length?
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Old 2013-02-02, 15:05   Link #26145
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Magnitude 6.9 quake on Hokkaido

No tsunami threat and, so far, no reports of death or damage. USGS detailed report



I wish more sites let you use longer passwords than the 8-15 characters that seems to be the norm. My wifi router uses a complete sentence. Considering that the passphrase is going to be hashed anyway, and the hash is likely to have a known fixed length, why restrict the length of passwords at all beyond a reasonable minimum length?
they should also let users use symbols in the password.
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Old 2013-02-02, 15:09   Link #26146
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No tsunami threat
Well it's in the middle of snowy island so avalanche?
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Old 2013-02-02, 15:56   Link #26147
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I wish more sites let you use longer passwords than the 8-15 characters that seems to be the norm. My wifi router uses a complete sentence. Considering that the passphrase is going to be hashed anyway, and the hash is likely to have a known fixed length, why restrict the length of passwords at all beyond a reasonable minimum length?
One thing about sentence passwords is that it is easier to crack through social engineering. I once managed to figure out the adminstrator access to a corporate system I worked temp for because the head IT officer is a Star Wars fan : I guessed the password to be "Iamyourdad".

Username and password has to come hand-in-hand to throw the would-be hacker off his/her patience. A username using the initials of the person is more likely to be hacked due to sometimes that the password is gotten but the username is not known.
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Old 2013-02-02, 16:07   Link #26148
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because the head IT officer is a Star Wars fan : I guessed the password to be "Iamyourdad".
Well, "Luke,IamYourfather!" would be a bit more difficult since it contains a comma, an exclamation point, and mixed capitalization. It could have been "Obi-wanKenobi,your'reourOnlyHope!", too. Let's face it, Saintess, you were just lucky.
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Old 2013-02-02, 16:11   Link #26149
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One thing about sentence passwords is that it is easier to crack through social engineering.
There is no tech defense for social engineering, you can get them drunk and anything goes "put your eye here, good, now put your finger here, good, now lets nuke thw whole world *evil laughter*"
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Old 2013-02-02, 16:13   Link #26150
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SH: If you do away with the necessity of remembering username and password (meaning you'd have to write it down on something and have that thing with you and see to it it doesn't fall into the wrong hands), you can just use some kind of dongle. Most attempts to be clever fall into the trap described in that xkcd strip above.
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Old 2013-02-02, 16:24   Link #26151
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My password usually some kinda "product code" for example RX-78-2
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Old 2013-02-02, 17:43   Link #26152
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Well, "Luke,IamYourfather!" would be a bit more difficult since it contains a comma, an exclamation point, and mixed capitalization. It could have been "Obi-wanKenobi,your'reourOnlyHope!", too. Let's face it, Saintess, you were just lucky.
Most people are lazy to type passwords too, so rarely people add dashes and commas to it.
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Old 2013-02-02, 17:50   Link #26153
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I can't remember if I saw this in a random link or in my YouTube suggestions...but fuck, this is pretty damn frightening...

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Old 2013-02-02, 18:13   Link #26154
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Old 2013-02-02, 18:35   Link #26155
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Great reads. I admit I never knew that...

I don't like the sensationalist "government is against us" nonsense it sprinkles itself with though.
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Old 2013-02-02, 19:42   Link #26156
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Not to be "that guy" .. but I'd point out that the "burden of proof" in civil vs. criminal suits are quite different.

In a criminal case, you must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt"
In a civil suit, you must prove "based on the balance of probabilities"
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Old 2013-02-02, 20:03   Link #26157
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Not to be "that guy" .. but I'd point out that the "burden of proof" in civil vs. criminal suits are quite different.

In a criminal case, you must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt"
In a civil suit, you must prove "based on the balance of probabilities"
I had this in mind while reading, and yes, there is no guarantee he was actually a pawn of the government. It's just by preponderance of evidence that it seems so. More evidence points to him being affiliated than evidence saying he was not.
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Old 2013-02-02, 21:06   Link #26158
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Yeah...with passwords, length is key, since it's a machine guessing, not a human.

Sentences mashed together FTW

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Most people are lazy to type passwords too, so rarely people add dashes and commas to it
Serious...isn't this common?
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Old 2013-02-02, 21:29   Link #26159
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Serious...isn't this common?
Umm, no, not at all.

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According password management company SplashData, the top three passwords of [2012] are "password," "123456," and "12345678." The company's list of the "25 worst passwords of the year" was compiled using data that hackers have posted online, which are said to be stolen passwords.
All of the passwords in the top-25 list are single lower-case dictionary words, or simple numeric strings like "123123". None have capitalization or use any special characters, nor do they mix numbers and letters.

This is as much a tribute to the stupidity of the developers who permit these passwords to be used as it is to the people who use them.

You can see why using rainbow tables is an effective technique.
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Old 2013-02-02, 21:42   Link #26160
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Some people have terrible memories and choose the simpler things.
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