Technique
technique:password_salting
Also: salting, salting password hashes
Adding an extra value when hashing passwords to make password cracking more difficult.
Adding an extra value when hashing passwords to make password cracking more difficult.
“Salting password hashes is an extra step that you do to make cracking hashes even harder.”
Use of salt values to make password-hash cracking more difficult; the episode says LinkedIn was not salting its passwords.
“LinkedIn wasn’t salting their passwords”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | INVOLVES | LinkedIn breach | Explicit | 87 |
LinkedIn breach INVOLVES Password salting
The episode says LinkedIn was not salting its passwords, making password cracking easier.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“LinkedIn wasn’t salting their passwords which is a way to make cracking passwords harder”