8 Handling passwords
This chapter covers
- Learning how passwords may be stolen
- Learning how attackers retrieve encrypted or hashed passwords
- Exploring why hashing is best for password handling
- Implementing password hashing with ASP.NET Core
- Changing default password hashing behavior of ASP.NET Core
In early October 2013, Adobe reported a security incident on their servers. The original blog posts are no longer available (only using a web archive), but independent news sources paint a very clear picture. According to security journalist Brian Krebs (http://mng.bz/o2DZ), attackers were able to access the source code of a few Adobe products. Also, personal customer information was stolen. As the Verge reported (http://mng.bz/nND5), the number of ...
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