At work, we are moving a CRM to a hosted solution. I haven't been much involved in the selection process, but have asked some questions on password hashing that as it turns out we probably should have ...

Over the past several months, we've seen major breaches exposing numerous usernames and passwords. The eBay and Adobe breaches impacted millions of accounts. Snapchat was compromised. With every ...

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I kind of miss the old days of passwords. Spy One says, "The rock falls with a bang," and Spy Two responds with, "Snow can be brushed off your shoes." Why the Internet didn't adopt this standard is ...

The /etc/shadow contains a lot more information than usernames and password hashes. It includes, among other things, the hashing algorithm that is used.

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Some of the projects that use MD5 as the default method for storing user passwords include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, miniBB, SugarCRM, CMS Made Simple, MantisBT, Phorum, Observium, and X3cms.