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This very week you had the Quora users info leak (https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update) where users info, i
by gmuslera 8y ago
This very week you had the Quora users info leak (https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update) where users info, including and their encrypted passwords, were compromised.
Password reuse, or even following a simple pattern for having different password for each site (i.e. a seed+site name) is the main problem here. If one site falls, then it should not be trivial to deduce your password or how to attack it for other, maybe more important or secure, sites.
- strictnein 8y agoSo they brute force an account (a not insignificant effort and the attacker now sees your password of "fuzzykittytoes". What are they going to do with that information? Target a bank with it? They can't bruteforce a 14 character password for the bank over the internet. What trivial method would you use to get into your bank account, if you didn't reuse that password?