The password-strength library for determining password strength. Used by Dropbox and WordPress. dropbox/zxcvbn
When installing SSHGuard on MacOS with Homebrew, pay attention to the note about enabling the firewall.
brew install sshguard
An estimation of how long it would take to crack your password. As if anyone cared enough to crack your password. How Secure Is My Password?
Hackers have published almost 15 gigabytes worth of password data, donation records, and source code taken during the recent hack of the Patreon funding website.
Troy Hunt of have i been pwned? found 2.3M unique email addresses in the data. This is a pretty huge breach.
[Hashing passwords with bcrypt means] crackers would have to devote vast amounts of time and resources to crack the hashes.
This is stupid, the passwords are meaningless. The database appears to contains mailing addresses, email, real names, donation amounts and correspondence. That makes it very easy to target people very specifically and with seemingly meaningful information based on actual relationships.
All this focus on passwords misses the point: Most passwords only unlock a small amount of information or resources. Most passwords are like house keys, they protect a small amount of stuff. Why would a criminal bother picking the lock on your front door if they already had a master key to every home in your city?
China is finally admitting what we’ve known for years: Yes, it has cyber warfare units, and plenty of them. No surprise at all. My Fail2Ban logs are filled with mostly Chinese IP addresses. China Finally Admits It Has an Army of Hackers for CyberwarÂ
Tech, noted 