Clear text passwords

Engle, Perry pengle at mitre.org
Mon Nov 5 22:04:07 UTC 2012


Hello - It's been happening for a while, but it's really (really) time to end storing clear text passwords in the database.  It's *LONG* past time to send them in email to your users.

If you'd like proof, go to

http://plaintextoffenders.com/submit
And
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/naming-and-shaming-the-plaintext-offenders/

Of all places, Fedora and Red Hat should be leading this charge.

Thanks for listening,

Perry Engle
Lead Cyber Security Engineer, Section Leader
The MITRE Corporation, Department G026
(o) 781-271-2349 (m) 617-893-0058

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