Re: [SLE] Do you read the security news?

From: Anders Johansson (andjoh_at_rydsbo.net)
Date: 02/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 04:17:28 +0100
    
    

    On Friday 27 February 2004 04.10, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
    > A rather fortuitous series of accidents enabled me to catch an actual
    > compromise of a password yesterday. I found some useful information by
    > running the KNewsTicker for the first time ever. That in combination with
    > some other evidence suggested _VERY STRONGLY_ that one of my passwords had
    > been compromised. Fortunately that password is virtually useless to
    > anyone.

    John the Ripper lists "Hatton" as a "common password" :)

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