Facebook buys black market passwords to keep your account safe
Pratica discutibile. Come se comperare droga migliorasse la sicurezza dei tossicodipendenti. Di sicuro incentiva il mercato della droga. <https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-su...> [] To check that Facebook members are not choosing these commonly used passwords for their accounts, Stamos revealed, the social network buys passwords hackers are selling on the black market and cross-references them with encrypted passwords used on the site. He described the task as "computationally heavy" but said that as a result of the exercise Facebook has been able to alert tens of millions of users that their passwords needed changing because they weren't strong enough. []
O come pagare un killer perchè non uccida: si fa aumentare il prezzo e si genera una specie di asta. Ma quel che mi sconcerta di più è un altro aspetto. Posto che normalmente questi soggetti non sono propriamente rispettosi della legge e delle condizioni contrattuali, chi assicura che le stesse informazioni non vengano comunque vendute a più acquirenti? Saluti a tutti D. ________________________________ From: nexa <nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it> on behalf of Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa@zeromx.net> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 1:05 PM To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Subject: [nexa] Facebook buys black market passwords to keep your account safe Pratica discutibile. Come se comperare droga migliorasse la sicurezza dei tossicodipendenti. Di sicuro incentiva il mercato della droga. <https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-su...> [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.Vd5e2a84c2e258f056a1956f7d751e08e&pid=Api]<https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-summit-lisbon-hackers/> Facebook buys black market passwords to keep your account safe<https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-su...> www.cnet.com The company's security chief says account safety is about more than just building secure software. [] To check that Facebook members are not choosing these commonly used passwords for their accounts, Stamos revealed, the social network buys passwords hackers are selling on the black market and cross-references them with encrypted passwords used on the site. He described the task as "computationally heavy" but said that as a result of the exercise Facebook has been able to alert tens of millions of users that their passwords needed changing because they weren't strong enough. [] _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa nexaInfo Page - Polito<https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa> server-nexa.polito.it nexa -- Public list for news and information sharing of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (Politecnico di Torino) About nexa
Credo sia molto probabile che gli aquirenti siano multipli. Non è chiaro dall'articolo se comprino dizionari di sole password o credenziali complete di username. Le prime si trovano facilmente fuori dal mercato nero, mentre non è chiaro a che cosa se ne farebbe FB delle seconde. Ciao, A On 11/18/2016 02:23 PM, Diego Giorio wrote:
O come pagare un killer perchè non uccida: si fa aumentare il prezzo e si genera una specie di asta.
Ma quel che mi sconcerta di più è un altro aspetto. Posto che normalmente questi soggetti non sono propriamente rispettosi della legge e delle condizioni contrattuali, chi assicura che le stesse informazioni non vengano comunque vendute a più acquirenti?
Saluti a tutti
D.
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Pratica discutibile. Come se comperare droga migliorasse la sicurezza dei tossicodipendenti. Di sicuro incentiva il mercato della droga.
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Facebook buys black market passwords to keep your account safe <https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-web-su...> www.cnet.com The company's security chief says account safety is about more than just building secure software.
[] To check that Facebook members are not choosing these commonly used passwords for their accounts, Stamos revealed, the social network buys passwords hackers are selling on the black market and cross-references them with encrypted passwords used on the site. He described the task as "computationally heavy" but said that as a result of the exercise Facebook has been able to alert tens of millions of users that their passwords needed changing because they weren't strong enough. []
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