On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Josh Juran�<josh@iswifter.net>�wrote:
On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Jeremy White wrote:

> Unfortunately, the attackers were able to download the full login
> database for both the appdb and bugzilla. �This means that they have all
> of those emails, as well as the passwords. �The passwords are stored
> encrypted, but with enough effort and depending on the quality of the
> password, they can be cracked.
>
> This, I'm afraid, is a serious threat; it means that anyone who uses the
> same email / password on other systems is now vulnerable to a malicious
> attacker using that information to access their account.

Since bugzilla passwords were sent in cleartext anyway, I sincerely hope none of them were otherwise valuable. �(Remember FireSheep?)

Josh


Wait, what? Bugzilla sends passwords in cleartext? That isn't very smart... Is there no way to replace this with some sort of client based hashing or something?