Some of the projects that use MD5 as the default method for storing user passwords include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, miniBB, SugarCRM, CMS Made Simple, MantisBT, Phorum, Observium, and X3cms.

If you're using an md5 password from /etc/shadow, you shouldn't be. Those md5 hashes are seeded, which is why they're different every time. Instead, try echo'ing your password through md5sum (or md5 ...

At work, we are moving a CRM to a hosted solution. I haven't been much involved in the selection process, but have asked some questions on password hashing that as it turns out we probably should have ...

After so many high-profile data breaches, it’s time developers learned that storing passwords is a really bad idea. And there is a perfectly workable alternative. Last week, I went to a project ...

In the password security arms race, the bad guys are winning. Once-sturdy cryptographic “hashing” algorithms — pillars of online data security — are proving vulnerable to brute force attacks that use ...