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Lesson learned from Facebook storing user credentials in a plaintext password

Check out this story about Facebook storing millions of user credentials in a plaintext file: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/21/facebook-plaintext-passwords Obviously this is a bad security practice, everyone makes mistakes (big and small). This story however stuck in the back of mind because lately I’ve

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IronBox Service Disruption

Good Morning, Update (4:37 am PST): Microsoft Azure has restored their services and we’re up and running again. Apologies from the IronBox team for any inconvenience the outage may have caused. We just got notification that our backend cloud provider

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