[AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

[Aqius]

OT, but hacking the ABC site (essentially attacking freedom of speech via
threatening the media through mass abuse of Australian website members)
seems a fairly full on approach... And one that is likely to lead to
hostility from the victims towards the rather than empathy. Did anyone see
the show - I'm curious how full on this guy is?

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Giles Pollock
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2013 14:43
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ABC Website Hacked

 

Looks like SHA1, some of the hashes match SHA1 rainbow tables if you do a
quick google search... Hope ABC is locking down and letting people know to
change their passwords on other services...

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

However if they are using a common unsalted hash like MD5 then it is trivial
to use a rainbow table to get the passwords in seconds.

 

--Damian

 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]

>
> I haven't looked at the dump but I won't be surprised if the passwords are
> trivially decryptable if they're encrypted at all. 1Password is your
friend.

So-as to prevent continued mis-use of language here; hashed passwords
can't be "decrypted". It is only possible to find another string which
hashes to the same value.


> T.

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