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Matt Johansen (@mattjay)

Twitter Bio:: Head of the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security (@whitehatsec), #blogger ( @liquidmatrix), #Volleyball player, (-:|3
Location:: Houston, TX
Website:: http://liquidmatrix.org/blog/

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8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website

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A partial list of the 6.5 million passwords leaked by someone identified as dwdm. The list contains strong passwords that were unique to LinkedIn, leading to speculation that's were the passwords originated.

An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and a separate, popular dating website.

The massive dumps over the past three days came in postings to user forums dedicated to password cracking at insidepro.com. The bigger of the two lists contains almost 6.46 million passwords that have been converted into hashes using

Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2012

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Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes