Hashed passwords provide much better security than storing passwords in the database as simple text. They are, however, potentially vulnerable to a dictionary attack. In a dictionary attack, the attacker attempts to guess passwords by using software to iteratively hash all words in a large dictionary and compare the generated hashes to the stored hash [...]

Every application uses username and password to provide security to the systems. The way an application handles the storage of password defines the level of security provided by the application. The password should not be stored in the database as a string. Rather, it should be converted to an unrecognizable value that is unique for [...]