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Analysis of Yahoo Voice Password Leak – 453,441 Passwords exposed

Jul

2012

We recently heard that a massive leak of Yahoo passwords have been floating on the interwebs for a few days. According to arstechnica the dump is from Yahoo Voice and the full data was released in clear-text (yes, clear text in 2012). It seems they were not storing the passwords securely.We got access to the […]

Category Security Written by Sucuri 0 Comments

Improving Passwords

Jun

2011

Troy Hunt, a Microsoft MVP, has done some terrific analysis of the passwords people use. Unfortunately, what has made this possible is the recent trend in hacktivism whereby it is common for hackivists to post the spoils of their attacks online to generate publicity and shame the company being attacked. While this has been bad […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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