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Dennis Mirante New PhD Student

Dennis Mirante New PhD Student. Advisor Prof. Cappos. Work Accomplished. Technical Report With Prof. Cappos Study on Password Database Compromises Analyzed 34 Recent Password Database Compromises Findings:

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Dennis Mirante New PhD Student

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  1. Dennis MiranteNew PhD Student Advisor Prof. Cappos

  2. Work Accomplished • Technical Report With Prof. Cappos • Study on Password Database Compromises • Analyzed 34 Recent Password Database Compromises • Findings: • SQL Injection attacks are most prevalent and largely driven by vulnerable PHP applications • Only 33% of the sites utilized best practices to protect passwords: Use of salts and secure hashes • Approximately 20% stored passwords insecurely in plaintext • Many sites now moving to two factor authentication

  3. Future Work • Rail Security • Collaborating With Outside Rail Security Experts • Researching Current Infrastructure As Well As Current And Proposed Security Standards To Assess Vulnerabilities And Possible Attack Scenarios • Propose Standards/Policies To Preclude/Mitigate them

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