Weak Passwords Banned from Hotmail

Microsoft’s email service, Hotmail, is implementing tougher standards for user passwords to combat the increasing occurrence email account hijackings. The company said Hotmail users will no longer be allowed to use common, easily guessable passwords like “password,” “12345,” and “qwerty,” which a...

New Password Not Enough to Secure Hacked E-mail Account

HED: New Passwords Not Enough to Secure Hacked E-mail Account DEK: Google’s Advice to Owners of Compromised Accounts Woefully Inadequate, Says Web Security Expert BY CALEB SIMA, CEO, Armorize Technologies Threatpost reported recently on a wave of warnings about Gmail account compromises linked to...

CVE-2009-2158

account-recover.php in TorrentTrader Classic 1.09 chooses random passwords from an insufficiently large set, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain a password via a brute-force attack...

[waraxe-2009-SA#074] - Multiple Vulnerabilities in TorrentTrader Classic 1.09

waraxe-2009-SA074 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in TorrentTrader Classic 1.09 =============================================================================== Author: Janek Vind "waraxe" Date: 15. June 2009 Location: Estonia, Tartu Web: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-74.html Description of vulnerable...