The Ashley Madison hack attack on infidelity dating site Ashley Madison is grabbing more than its share of headlines. Experts say security professionals worldwide, across all sectors, can use the high-profile case to learn some important lessons. Failure to keep customer data secure was the company’s biggest error, says Raj Samani, the chief technology officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Intel Security. Ashley Madison succeeded at password security by not just selecting the bcrypt password hash algorithm, but also by using it correctly.”]
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