Strong Passwords - A New Approach
C'mon, show me your passwords. We all know our default password like the back of our hands. Websites, email accounts, wallets - a mess of places and ideas - who can afford to think of a unique and secure password for each new login registration? Note to readers: Part Two - Motor Memory Passphrases has been published. Well, the level of vulnerability has just ticked up by two notches with the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug this April. A memory leak in the web's most popular encryption protocol means that no-one can be sure that their usernames, passwords and data over the past 2....
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Motor Memory is in the palm of your hand. From your various wallet passphrases to online login accounts, the need for strong passphrases, today, is imperative and this article will show you how to easily create passwords of above-average strength. Not only will you be able to generate stronger passwords on the fly, but the unprecedented techniques, such as the Motor Memory Passphrase, proposed in this article will simplify your task of creating memorable passphrases that are suitably unique, yet simple. As simple as tapping your fingers on a desk. If you've read Part One: Strong Passwords....
Apple’s new iOS 10 may have made passwords much easier to hack. According to Elcomsoft, a Russian security firm specializing in password recovery, using the Phone Breaker tool on iOS 9 allowed a hacker to try 150,000 different passwords per second in a brute force attack. In iOS 10, because of a flaw in iTunes login, that number jumps to 6 million per second. Therefore, a brute force attack employed on iOS 10 is 2,500 times easier than through iOS 9. In a statement, Apple acknowledged that it was aware of, and planning on addressing, this particular vulnerability, and that in the meantime....
In this age of hacks and scandals, are passwords really capable of protecting your bitcoins? Each bitcoin address has a corresponding private key, which enables the owner to spend the bitcoins in it, but this private key also needs protecting. The private key for your public bitcoin address is crucial, because without it, you will lose access to your coins. You can't keep this key in your head, though, because it's a long string of alphanumeric gibberish, which is rather impractical to memorise. Some people protect their bitcoins by storing them in paper wallets, embedding them in a....
Bitcoin poker site Seals with Clubs has confirmed that its database was compromised, although it failed to mention that it lost 42,020 hashed passwords in the process. The hashes were posted to a forum some 24 hours earlier and needless to say they attracted plenty of people bent on cracking them. For some reason Seals with Clubs used SHA1 hash functions, which are for all intents and purposes obsolete. Even the latest SHA3 hash is not suitable for passwords and it appears that the site was relying on cryptographic salting to make them more secure, making sure that different hashes would....
Sometimes the world of bitcoin seems lawless. All too frequently, we hear stories of heists, broken-into exchanges, and more. This time around, the victim is bitcoin poker website named "Seals With Clubs'. The service admitted their database had been compromised, but according to CoinDesk, failed to mention that private information of users were intercepted; to the tune of 42,020 individually hashed passwords. Seals With Clubs used SHA1 has functions to protect sensitive information, but it was doing just that. SHA1 is outdate and should not be touched with a ten-foot pole. A user then....