HackerS [LulzStorm] Steal Data from Many Italian Universities

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Steal-Data-from-Many-Italian-Universities-210377.shtml

The hacker who uses the online handle of LulzStorm, a reference to the
defunct LulzSec hacking outfit, has uploaded part of the stolen data
in a torrent.

"Today is a great day for us all, and a very bad one for italian
universities. Their sites are full of weaknesses. Some of them even
think being secure, so they don't mind hashing their passwordz," he
writes.

Indeed, password hashing has been the standard in web development for
years now and there is no excuse for not using it, especially on
websites that deal with other people's information.

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