Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

How do I change the hashing function being used for shadow passwords?<BR><BR>I've been searching for nearly an hour and must not be using the correct terminology. I can find answers for Solars & BSD, ...

Over the past several months, we've seen major breaches exposing numerous usernames and passwords. The eBay and Adobe breaches impacted millions of accounts. Snapchat was compromised. With every ...