Password Security: A dash of ‘salt’ and little of ‘hash’ to go please!
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Adithya Omanakuttan / 14 years
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Online services like LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm were recently hacked and millions of passwords were found on Russian hacker forums. This has led to a rise in public awareness about password securing procedures like ‘salting’ and ‘hashing’. Quick Heal users are protected from various real-time risks but attacks like this show that web services need […]