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First Critical Windows 8 Security Flaw: Logon Passwords Stored in Plain Text
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15th October 2012, 09:25
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  First Critical Windows 8 Security Flaw: Logon Passwords Stored in Plain Text As you may know in case you’re a Windows 8 early adopter, the new operating system comes with two new authentication options, allowing users to log in via a picture password or a secure PIN. “The matter is that these two authentication methods are based on a regular user account. In other words, the user must first have created an account with a regular password and then optionally switch to PIN or picture password authentication. Notably that the original plain-text (!) password to the account also remains in the system,” Passcape wrote in a blog post.Passwords could, of course, be decrypted and Passcape says that some software solutions especially created in this regard have already been developed. http://news.softpedia.com/news/First...t-298867.shtml
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