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Hey all
With the hack on Debian,s gluck machine and the writes up about it.
In the 5th paragraph of the following link:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Debian_locks_out_developers_after_server_hack/0,2000061744,39263432,00.htm
It reads
"An investigation of developer passwords revealed a number of weak passwords whose accounts have been locked in response," Schulze wrote.
My question is, how would they go about that? What tools or tests were needed to test whether an account has a strong or weak password.
The only thing I can think of is a foreach on the usernames and some type of brute force / dictionary attack. I suppose it would have been nice if they
mentioned the service / protocal that was compromised.
Just something I was thinking.
Kind Regards
Brent Clark
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