During the trial, which took place under special circumstances and protective measures, Nikulin pled not guilty. US prosecutors proved their case, but they also tried to pin him to other hacks and criminal conspiracies.
The judge supervising the case called the prosecution's efforts into question just days before the trial ended, describing their efforts and evidence as " mumbo jumbo ," wondered if the prosecutors were wasting the jury's time, and also asked out loud if the prosecutors had any real evidence against Nikulin besides private messages sent between two nicknames on internet chats.
However, despite the judge critiquing the prosecutors for their handling of the case, the jury found Nikulin guilty after only six hours of deliberations.
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You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. Image via autorambler. Ultimately, a jury convicted Nikulin of selling stolen usernames and passwords, installing malware on protected computers, conspiracy, computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft.
Judge Alsup stated that he handed down the month prison sentence in the hopes that the punishment would deter anyone—including individuals located overseas—from engaging in similar conduct. Nikulin has been in U. He will begin serving out his prison sentence immediately. Toggle navigation. Which suggests that they were indeed salting the passwords. Assuming this was actually done, and done in a reasonable manner, then in theory there should actually be little or no risk from this breach I would think.
But then I don't know why they would feel the need to immediately replace their hashing mechanism Salting just defends against precomputed hashes rainbow tables. Using a slower algorithm such as bcrypt defends against brute force attacks. The total runtime was maybe half an hour.
Using bcrypt makes brute force attacks much less practical. It's also good practice to iterate your hashing algorithm, each time feeding the resultant hash as input. Running sh. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead. The relative importance of files depends on their cost in terms of the human effort needed to regenerate them. Try the CryptoTab Browser. It works like a regular web browser but mines Bitcoin for you while you browse!
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Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn. The compromise led to the loss of , passwords, forcing the site to reset all member passwords. Mirroring the recent LinkedIn breach , Formspring said that it was alerted to a forum post that contained , password hashes. Engineers shutdown the service and confirmed the passwords were indeed theirs.
In less than a day, an investigation revealed that the attacker s had 'broken into one of our development servers and was able to use that access to extract account information from a production database ' There have been no reported incidents of individual account compromise, but there were reports of Phishing by some users on Twitter attempting to capitalize on the incident.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. Score: 5 , Funny.
Is that like , people smokin' the reefer? Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 3. Score: 4 , Funny. More like , people use d something I've never heard of? Parent Share twitter facebook. Re: Score: 2. I wonder if unknown websites would make up some imaginary accounts. Network Isolation Score: 5 , Insightful. Have you tried telling nigger jokes? Re:Network Isolation Score: 5 , Interesting.
Re: Score: 1. Re: Score: 2 , Interesting. The doctor analogy is an interesting one - a doctor won't go through a full surgical scrub and use a sterile theatre for giving an innoculation because the risks of introducing a little bacteria into the skin aren't huge, a sterile needle and an alcohol wipe-down are sufficient.
In the same way, if you have properly salted hashes using a strong algorithm, and you're not storing personally identifying information names, CC details etc then your DB doesn't have to be massively secure.
Start storing card d. There is a good reason why I'm not hiring you. You do shoddy work, and rationalize it. If your chain of authorities aren't clean, nothing is clean, and you risk all. I do work for a client who doesn't have the budget for large commercial level systems. If they ask for something that would require something "shoddy" then I explain that it's not practical at their budget.
Example: they wanted to take online payment for tickets. I could have written a custom system to deal with it all but I'm well aware that it would be outside their budget and at the limit of my capabilities, so I pass the problem on to PayPal. On the other hand, if they need due diligence records for. I pretty much agree with everything above.
Thanks for coming back with something constructive and thoughtful on top of the snarky comment I thought the previous one might be. I'm self-taught from the age of 8. So now your alarm be.
Ha, forgotten asterisk. I know, I know, of such things are segfaults made. Web programmer is the simple way to put what I do to a non-geek, I realise I'm probably offending a bunch of real web programmers here. Anybody ever hear anything else thats relevant? Re:Network Isolation Score: 4 , Insightful. Bottom line is you just make more hosts to compromise in order to get to the database. And if the production and database servers are "in the cloud"? Kind of hard to isolate them then, aint it?
I've run into this before. Next thing we know, they're trying to sick VPs on us It's only a test server! It's kind of irrelevant which database the hackers get into when they are identical to each other.
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