Sentences with phrase «plaintext passwords»

Ex-NSA analyst Patrick Wardle has discovered that malicious third - party apps could let hackers access plaintext passwords stored in Apple's Keychain with the macOS High Sierra update.

The data trove's «Dropbox» file contains 18 million usernames plus plaintext passwords.

«Fortunately, the eBay account passwords were encrypted, so it will be more difficult for attackers to retrieve the plaintext passwords and use them to impersonate people,» Craig Young, security researcher for Tripwire, told the E-Commerce Times.

This time, a hacker on a dark web forum called «Hell» claims to have sold the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 27 million users of dating site Mate1.com.

An analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of services may have experienced unreported or undiscovered data breaches.

He used a service that allowed him to covert the plaintext password to a bcrypt one, a procedure he humorously termed the «poor man's cracking service.»

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It appears Mate1.com hosted the password files in plaintext without any hashing.

The information was all plaintext, meaning no encryption was in place, and included names, email addresses, DOBs and passwords of around 42m users from around the world.

And off - topic loads of forums and WordPress sites would get called out for accepting passwords over plaintext.

Essentially, the password will never be visible in its plaintext form.

While «bcrypt» is generally considered safe — meaning, hackers who gain access to databases containing these passwords can't access them in plaintext — it is prone to implementation mistakes, as Ashley Madison users discovered during its 2015 breach.

Four locks, for example, transmitted their user passwords in plaintext to smartphones, making it easy for anyone with a $ 100 Bluetooth sniffer to pluck the passwords out of thin air.