Faulty password handling implementations that use outdated hashing methods like MD5 or fail to appropriately “salt” (or randomize) hashes to prevent brute force attacks are a bigger problem ...

For passwords, it works like this. Users have to type in their username and password every time they log in. What we need to do is to take that password and hash it (compute a unique value using a ...

Rainbow tables are password cracking tools with origins dating back to research from the early 1980s. Here's how they work and why they haven't stood the test of time.