Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Amazon's EC2 brings new might to password cracking

Amazon's EC2 brings new might to password cracking • The Register: "Forget what you've learned about password security. A simple pass code with nothing more than lower-case letters may be all you need - provided you use 12 characters.

That's the conclusion of security consultant David Campbell, who calculated the cost of waging a brute-force attack on various types of passwords using cloud computing services offered by Amazon."