Tuesday, January 26, 2016

All your old-tech passwords belong to us, for just $17

Today’s lesson on how the cloud can work against you, as well as for you, is about your passwords and keys, and how they’re becoming useless. I’ve stolen a link from Mark Gibbs to help.


Let’s say you’ve been letting older security encryption methods live out their life in the pastures of your data center. CloudCracker, using massively-induced dictionary attacks, can make mincemeat from a frightening number of password key-exchange seeds.


For just $ 17 per, CloudCracker can conveniently crack the following password seeds: WPA/WPA2, NTLM, SHA-512, MD5s, and/or MS-CHAPv2. No tears, please. And yes, cracked like an egg, a $ 17 egg. Certainly no one would abuse such a service, would they?


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Network World Cloud Computing



All your old-tech passwords belong to us, for just $17

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