Password Management Tips

The video tutorial covers essential security measures to protect against attacks. It begins with disabling legacy LM hashing on Windows using group policies, as LM hashing is weaker than NTLM. The tutorial then emphasizes the importance of using passwords longer than 14 characters to avoid LM hash storage. It also highlights the use of BitLocker for disk encryption to protect data from theft or exposure. Finally, the video explains the concept of salting in hash functions to defend against dictionary and rainbow table attacks.

Explain the concept of salting in hash functions.

What types of attacks does salting help protect against?