This week brought another pleasant surprise when
Michael Argast from Telus phoned me and asked if I needed a guest for the Chet Chat. I did and Michael made some time to stop by the Chet Chat studio to discuss the week's news.
We started out by discussing the password foibles of
LinkedIn,
EHarmony and
Last.fm. Unsalted password hashes are very bad practice, considering your mobile phone not only salts your password hash, but does thousands of rounds to ensure brute forcing is difficult.
Research by Kaspersky this week all but confirmed the fact that the Flame malware appears to be of the same origin as Stuxnet. That is to say it appears to
originate from the United States and Israel.
