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TheStudentRoom Hacked! (Maybe a little old?)
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/announcement.php?f=148&a=854
First time i've been on in a week or so, looks like it's like, 8 days old news.. But just a heads up for any students on there (like myself...).
Can somebody please explain how these sites are not using "secure" hashing methods?
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There are more advanced "hashing" methods, but maybe the student room was developed like ages ago and they never re-coded their site to use newer hashing techniques?
Would you expect it to be, being it the largest student forum in the UK, atleast.
Well, the site might have been developed before like i said, and thus they might have never revisited the code to update their hashing methods.
Don't they use vB forums? So won't they use vB's hashing techniques? I have an account there.
They didnt even email me about this....
I wasnt even informed, until I saw this post on the "important" threads ...
Quite irresponsible of them to be honest, are they using VB? There must be a way to tell... And I wonder if this was done by one of them UGN guys?
SHA256/SHA512 (SHA-2) has existed for the past 11 years.
Why would you think that?
Haha. Great to know that most techies still think that one lock pad is enough. Security is a joke on the Internet.
The way forward for anyone that likes to leave their servers unsecure, make your own hashing method. Get on my level.
If it is run via VB forums software, then it should be secure - kind of, atleast - that is if it is the latest version they are running.