Can this $70 dongle stem the epidemic of password breaches?

12 March 2014

Security researchers have developed a password storage system that uses inexpensive hardware to prevent the cracking of passwords — even the most common and weak ones such as "123456," "password," and "letmein."

The S-CRIB Scrambler uses an additional layer of protection over methods many websites use now to prevent mass account compromises in the event a password database is exposed during a site breach.