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ang="en" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">, Play A Crossword Game With Adobe’s Leaked Passwords. Passwords should be salted and hashed with a strong hash function, not encrypted. If your password is in the crossword then you should go change it immediately if you use the same password anywhere else. This is bad for four main reasons: It is fast: you don’t want a fast algorithm for storing your passwords, you want to make it slow, so that bruteforce is infeasible. The crossword uses 1000 most common passwords from the Adobe’s recent password leak in order to inform you about weak password. There are some ridiculously compromising password hints in there and a great deal more would only need the slightest amount of knowledge to crack, like 'DOB'. Adobe says it now believes usernames and encrypted passwords have been stolen from at least 38 million active accounts. You still don’t know anything about the Adobe cloud security breach? This is the perfect example of why you should never re-use passwords across sites. I don't want to go into too much detail on the passwords themselves as there is a superb write up on them here by Naked Security. Enable Monitor Or Projector Connected To Crunchbang via VGA Port, Fix Media Files Not Playing in Elementary OS ‘Luna’, Let’s Encrypt your Apache webserver on CentOS 7, How to generate and check strong passwords in Linux, How to prevent SSH from disconnecting sessions, What is UNIX used for? Go and change it, before it is too late. If your password is in the crossword then you should go change it immediately if you use the same password anywhere else. The ECB Penguin ».

The Adobe security team has discovered a sophisticated attack on Adobe’s network which involves the illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products. Knowing that someone's password is their dog/cat/son/daughter provides a very narrow target for an attacker to focus their efforts. That is, select all the passwords where the hint was 123456, giving us the following data (top 100). Dec 13th, 2013. Crawler.Ninja cred (uncompressed) - 9.3GB - 020aaacc56de7a654be224870fb2b516, The 152,982,479 entries are formatted like this, UID-|--|-EMAIL-|-BASE64 PASSWORD-|-HINT|--. Nicolai.

Looking at the password hints may help with guessing if theres more than one entry of the pass phrase. For the hint 'password' you can see that the value 'ioxG6CatHBw' starts to become extremely prevalent in the results. Going back to the article I mentioned earlier over on Naked Security, it explained how the passwords weren't encrypted properly. This is largely due... As a UNIX user, one of the basic tasks that you will often find yourself performing is renaming files and folders. 8th-9th June, NDC Oslo (EU TZ Remote) HSTS Cheat Sheet Lately Adobe has been a target for cyber criminals. Adobe used 3DES to crypt the passwords i believe, so your gonna struggle without the encryption key. 1,404 . From this, we can already see a huge opportunity for social engineering. Password hints are a terrible idea to start with, but here they are, in the data leak, in plain text. That's always a good starting point. Occasionally, you find yourself scouring through your system in search of a particular file(s).
Going forwards, I hope that this breach will help whip other companies into shape with regards to their password security. Removed by PasteBin. Not a member of Pastebin yet? Never . This one has a particularly interesting result. This is a great indicator that your password actually contains 'password' and allows an attacker to launch a more effective attack on cracking the encryption key. However, the use of a keyed cipher makes cracking the passwords with only a DB dump like this infeasible, even if we can get some nice stats out of it. A password should never be encrypted, but instead should be properly hashed and salted before being stored in a database. I'm going to take a look at the customer data that was subsequently leaked and how bad the situation is. Namely, the problem with this are that (A) you need to have access to the cipher password for all the time the system is online, and if that is compromised, all the passwords can be retrieved at once (B) you leak passwords lengths. American spelling, I know. You have a very bad password! ‘Ifconfig’ Command Not Found In CentOS 7 Minimal Installation – A... How to install Univention Corporate Server, Top Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 15.04. Powered by Octopress, « Making system calls from Assembly in Mac OS X, [2014-06-24] "The Heartbleed Test" @ OWASP / NYU Poly, Salt & Pepper, please: a note on password storage, On Keybase.io and encrypted private key uploading.

Using a WiFi and GPS enabled Android smartphone I have accurately mapped out every available. Hashing, password strengthening and encryption are different things. HTTPS Cheat Sheet

Nov 4th, 2013 A crossword game with Adobe’s Leaked Passwords is now available for playing at http://zed0.co.uk/crossword/. To show how easy it is to crack the password with nothing more than a SQL query, I ran the following: This query gives me the most commonly used password hints for this particular encrypted password. 8th-11th September, CSP Cheat Sheet Security Headers 10th-12th June, The Best TLS Training in the World (US/CAN TZ Remote)

The idea of a little bit of text that's supposed to help you figure out what your password is, when it's supposed to be a secret, seems to be a bit of a contradiction. There is no possible requirement to ever need to recover a user's password so a one way hash will do just fine, thanks. You can read more about this security announcement here. This query selects the most commonly used passwords in the database, the top 5 are below and the top 100 are here. Click here for more info! Password hints are a terrible idea to start with, but here they are, in the data leak, in plain text.

Since the key used to encrypt the passwords isn’t known (yet), researchers have been using a guessing technique of the user’s password … Sign Up, it unlocks many cool features! Click here for more info!
Just to see what else I could dig up I decided to run a bunch of other queries. Top 100 passwords for hints that contained 'qwerty': (link)Removed by PasteBin. I am one of the guys currently behind youtube-dl and I attended Hacker School in NYC. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. Jeremi Gosney (@jmgosney) counted the password repetitions, took the most common ones and then guessed the plaintext either by getting it from one of the users or from the hints. Available in 25 countries and 8 different languages, it has millions of users in the UK alone. The truth is I could go on doing that for a very long time. The passwords seem to be encrypted with a 8-bytes block cipher, allegedly 3DES, in ECB mode. As hashing algorithms always produce a digest with a fixed length, I can immediately determine that these passwords have indeed been encrypted and not hashed. 7th-10th July, The Best TLS Training in the World (EU/Asia TZ Remote) Copyright © 2016 - Filippo Valsorda - Why No HTTPS? Things you should know about RHCSA Certification Exam RHCSA or Red Hat Certified System administration exam is designed to test your knowledge and skills which... Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. The crossword uses 1000 most common passwords from the Adobe’s recent password leak in order to inform you about weak password. There is no protection whatsoever afforded to them. Performance Cheat Sheet, Report URI HTTP Forever, Match.com is recognised as the largest online dating site in the world. Then this query, select all the passwords where the hint was password, gives us the following data (top 100) Removed by PasteBin. Adobe encrypted the passwords with 3DES in ECB mode, the passwords in this leak are were all encrypted with the same key. Sponsored by:   Want to sponsor my site? Having such a huge and purely online presence, the average person would be forgiven, As a modern day smartphone packs about as much punch as a low spec laptop or even desktop, Wardriving with a GPS enabled device became a whole lot easier. Looking closely at the password data you can see patterns emerging in the encrypted values. Top 100 passwords for hints that contained '1to6': (link)Removed by PasteBin. – Popular use cases, Linux vs Unix – How is UNIX different from Linux, Everything you should know about RHCSA Certification. Researchers from security firm 4iQ have now discovered a new collective database on the dark web (released on Torrent as well) that contains a whopping 1.4 billion usernames and passwords in clear text. Top 100 passwords for hints that contained 'color': (link). Hashing, password strengthening and encryption are different things. That's a whopping 1,911,522 (1.25% of users) using exactly the same, very weak password! Next up is the passwords themselves. As there is no randomisation introduced into the encryption process (a nonce), when you encrypt a particular value, you always get the same output. Pastes you were found in. Now the passwords dump has leaked, and it’s hilarious. I am Filippo Valsorda (@FiloSottile) an Italian consultant specialized in cryptography and security with a passion for Python, Go and maths. There is no protection whatsoever afforded to them. Points for guessing the top 3 password values! Going back to my earlier point, this shows how the 1.4 million people that use the password 123456, but had no password hint, have been compromised by the presence of obvious password hints from other users, and the lack of proper password security from Adobe of course. I don't think it's going to take a genius to figure out what almost 2 million people were using as their account password... (full list). You can read up on my article about 2 factor authentication and password managers to help protect yourself against exactly that problem. Here all the hints that had over 100,000 occurrences (top 100). It is used in ECB mode: ECB is evil, as every block of 8 bytes is encrypted separately and you can spot duplicates between 8-character blocks.