Cold fusion myspace hack

Xiomara Blanco. May 31, a. MySpace got an update in MySpace Time Inc. The passwords were not stored in plain-text, they were hashed with SHA-1 and left unsalted. This means that the passwords were put through a one-way cryptographic function that left the password unknown unless guessed exactly. For example, instead of:. There are two common attacks to crack the passwords, either brute-force all combinations or use a dictionary of previously identified passwords.

The second method, is effective but limited in scope due to the pre-determined list of passwords. This RNN reads from a set of starter passwords and tries to predict new passwords from the linguistic patterns observed. Forgot password? Keep me signed in. Your email? The email you used to create your account. The last part of your Myspace URL. Ex: myspace.

Facebook Twitter Email. Full Name? Most people use their real name. Select Gender? This helps us keep people, musicians and brands searchable on Myspace. Please select Female Male Unspecified. This is your profile URL. Pick one that's 25 characters or less and includes a letter. The only place we aren't doing this is 'Browse' and certain other new features.

NET 2. Thanks for the mention, Scott. It's been an exciting time putting this together and I can't imagine pulling this off on another platform.

NET, and now it's researching the next move since. NET has global reliability problems. Praise Java! If they haven't done that in.