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How Companies Protect Your Passwords With Hashing, Salted Hashes And Slow Algorithms
2When you enter your password online, the companies behind reputable websites will do a number of things in the background to ensure it is protected. These include hashing the password, using salted hashes and inefficient mathematical algorithms so that even if hackers do get your password data, it will be extremely difficult for them to…
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Windows 10 Update Bug Grants ‘Root’ Access And Bypasses BitLocker With Just Two Keys
There’s a vulnerability that gives any user local admin privileges, equivalent to root on Linux, on Windows 10 machines through a command line interface. This can be done by holding down two keys while the operating system is updating. The bug gives access to a computer’s hard drive even if it is encrypted with BitLocker.…
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How To Find And Fix The Latest NTP Exploits On Windows And Linux Machines
Earlier this week, a set of vulnerabilities were released that can crash or cause other issues with certain versions of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon, used to synchronise clocks on a variety of computers, with a single malformed packet. This bug affects only affects some Windows systems but other vulnerabilities have also been found…
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How To Test For And Mitigate BlackNurse Denial-Of-Service Attacks That Target Firewalls
A type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack that targets firewalls from a number of vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto and SonicWall was found to have resurfaced earlier this month. Unlike other DoS attacks that rely on pounding machine or network resource with large amounts of traffic, BlackNurse doesn’t require much bandwidth at all. Researchers have shown…