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Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by stcredzero on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:43PM (#20519459)
I wonder if there couldn't be some form of automated tooling which creates dummy accounts in your system and looks for leaks of this type?
Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by ezekg on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:48PM (#20519509)
That's a really interesting idea. Generate unique tokens e.g. for detecting leaked passwords and alert upon any text match within database, logs, etc.
Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by slenk on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:18PM (#20519844)
Azure has this built into some of their DLP...at least when looking at emails
Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by stcredzero on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:51PM (#20519535)
It wouldn't just be for passwords. It would be for any kind of confidential data.
Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by popotamonga on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:55PM (#20519586)
Set an one time url as a password. Someone accesses it bam.
Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext by dmix on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:44PM (#20521262)
The detector would have to run everywhere, not just on your web application. It'd have to check linux/nginx/apache/etc logs, metric systems transit pipes and storage, etc, etc.

I guess you could install it as a Linux system which searches through all plaintext traversing the network AND filesystems of the entire infrastructure. Which might be a good business idea if you could pull it off.