Re:Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
by stcredzero on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:43PM
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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?
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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.
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
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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
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Set an one time url as a password. Someone accesses it bam.
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.