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Imperva Releases Detailed Password Cracking Analysis | Reuters
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This is a read for any system admin worth their salt in the computer industry.

The report details:

  • How hackers bypass security controls to protect passwords.
  • Popular, key online resources hackers employ, including one website containing 50 billion possible password permutations.
  • Key steps that Imperva recommends IT teams within enterprises undertake in order to mitigate password breaches.  Among those are.
    1. Using passphrases
    2. Enforce strong password policy
    3. Use a special form of encryption known as “salted digests.”

The complete report is located here.  Details on the earlier consumer report found here.