Sunday June 10, 2012 at 23:24
Lessons Learned from Cracking 2 Million LinkedIn Passwords
Qualys, qualys.com
Like everyone this week, I learned about a huge file of password hashes that had been leaked by hackers. The 120MB zip file contained 6,458,020 SHA-1 hashes of passwords for end-user accounts.
At first, everyone was talking about a quic…