Articles tagged as “Mall.cz”
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Cracking passwords from the Mall.cz dump
You don't crack passwords using rainbow tables or brute-force attacks anymore. So this probably wasn't a plaintext leak, somebody have cracked 750k passwords and uploaded them online. I've tried cracking them too.
Upgrading existing password hashes
Still using MD5 or SHA-1 to store user passwords and want to gracefully migrate to e.g. bcrypt? Want to do it properly to protect all passwords in the database? Here's how.