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31

Oct

2012

Android is one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. In the second quarter of this year there were more than 300 million active Android devices. The increase is almost 900,000 of new devices per day and still rising. These days Android occupies more than 60% of the mobile devices market! By the way […]

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Redux: Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords?

07

Jun

2012

Yesterday, LinkedIn confirmed reports that some member passwords have been compromised. Here’s some info from their blog: “It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our […]

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Millions of LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked – take action NOW

06

Jun

2012

Although not yet confirmed by the business-networking website, it is being widely speculated that over six million passwords belonging to LinkedIn users have been compromised.A file containing 6,458,020 SHA-1 unsalted password hashes has been posted on the internet, and hackers are working together to crack them. Although the data which has been released so far […]

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